Rewriting Saints and Ancestors examines the ways medieval French writers re-remembered and rewrote the lives of saints and dynastic ancestors, reconceptualizing the past in order to make sense of the present.
List of Illustrations
Preface
Notes on Terminology
Introduction
Chapter 1. Cartularies: Remembering the Documentary Past
Chapter 2. The Composition and Purpose of Cartularies
Chapter 3. Twelfth-Century Narratives of the Past
Chapter 4. Polyptyques: Twelfth-Century Monks Face the Ninth Century
Chapter 5. An Age of Forgery
Chapter 6. Remembering the Carolingians
Chapter 7. Creation of a Carolingian Dynasty
Chapter 8. Western Monasteries and the Carolingians
Chapter 9. Eighth-Century Transitions: The Evidence from Burgundy
Chapter 10. Great Noble Families in the Early Middle Ages
Chapter 11. Early Frankish Monasticism
Chapter 12. Remembering Martyrs and Relics in Sixth-Century Gaul
Conclusion
Appendix I. Monasteries in Burgundy and Southern Champagne
Appendix II. Churches in Auxerre
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
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Rewriting Saints and Ancestors von Constance Brittain Bouchard - mit der ISBN: 9780812290080
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