Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: English Law and Identity: Anglo-Saxon Precedent and Plantagenet Practice in Athelston; Chapter 2: Guy and Bevis: English Exemplars in the Anglo-Saxon Past; Chapter 3: A Noble History: Trojan Heros and the Fountain of Britian; Chapter 4: Hybrid Identities and Illegitimacy in Of Arthour and Of Merlin; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
This work explores how narratives aided in the construction of a national identity in England in the late Middle Ages. Throughout the Middle Ages England was the site of confluent cultures, English, Scandinavian, and Continental, and this work examines how social, cultural and political encounters, particularly in the centuries following the Norman Conquest, influenced constructions of Englishness
