Introduction
1. Writing about Charles Martel - Paul Fouracre
2. Peers in the early middle ages - Janet L. Nelson
3. Stepmothers in Frankish legal life - Brigitte Kasten
4. Political ideas in late tenth-century England: Charters as evidence - Pauline Stafford
5. Medieval mentalities and primative legal practice - Michael Clanchy
6. The problem of treason: the trial of Daire le Roux - Stephen D. White
7. Between law and politics: Thr judicial duel under the Angevin kings - Jane Martindale
8. Local custon in early common law - Paul Brand
9. 'Slaves of the Normans'? Gerald de Barri and regnal solidarity in early thirteenth-century England - John Gillingham
10. Kinsmen, neighbours and communities in Wales and the Western British Isles, c.1100–c.1400 - Rees Davies
11. Lay kinship solidarity and Papal law - David d'Avray
12. Laity, laicicization and Philip the Fair of France - Elizabeth R. Brown
13. Lay solidarities: The wards of medieval London - Caroline Barron
14. Language, laughter and lay solidarities: and inquiry into the decline of pilgrimage and crusading - Charles T. Wood
15. Lay/Clerical distinctions in Early India - Romila Tharpar
A bibliography of Susan Reynold's work
Index