Map: Eleventh-Century Normandy xi
Genealogical Chart: Rulers of Normandy and Their Connections, 911-1087 xii
1 Placing the Texts in Time 13
2 Individual Appeal: Explaining the Interest in Taurinus, Vigor, and Nicasius 33
3 Imagining the Past of the Evrecin: The Vita Taurini 51
4 Reshaping History in the Bessin; The Vita Vigoris 74
5 Claiming the Heritage of the French Vexin: The Passio Nicasii 94
6 Broader Perspective: The Norman Vision of the Distant Past and Contemporary Hagiography 112
Appendix 1 Manuscripts of the Vita Taurini and Vita Vigoris 139
Appendix 2 Transmission of the Passio Nicasii 145.