Marriage as inspiration for the writing of history / Elisabeth van Houts -- Writing Christianization in medieval Hungary / Nora Berend -- Corrupted by power -- bishops in Adam of Bremen's Gesta episcoporum Hammaburgensis ecclesiae / Alheydis Plassman -- The northification of the pagan past in Old Norse literature / Lasse Sonne -- William of Malmesbury and the Scandinavians / Rodney M. Thomson -- Henry of Huntingdon, the Roskilde chronicle, and the English connection in twelfth-century Denmark / Michael H. Gelting -- The style of Aelnoth / Michael Winterbottom -- Monastic life as a matrix of meaning: history, liturgy, and interior reform in early Danish historical texts / Sigbjørn Sønnesyn -- Music and its significance for the articulation of history in twelfth-century Scandinavian historiae for sainted rulers / Roman Hankeln -- Memorial, ritual, and the writing of history / Nils Holger Petersen -- Lost chronicle or elusive informers? Some thoughts on the source of Ralph Niger's Reports from twelfth-century Denmark / Mia Münster-Swendsen -- Why was William of Æbelholt canonized? / Thomas Heebøll-Holm -- Dudo of St Quentin and Saxo Grammaticus: historiography in two phases of charismatic culture / C. Stephen Jaeger -- Ideas of empire: Saxo Grammaticus and Godfrey of Viterbo / Thomas Foerster -- Writing peace, writing war: Roger of Howden and Saxo Grammaticus compared / Jenny Benham -- Karsten Friis-Jensen's preliminary findings towards a new edition of Sven Aggesen / Michael Winterbottom