Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction: using the past, interpreting the present, influencing the future
- 1 Memory, identity and power in Lombard Italy
- 2 Memory and narrative in the cult of early Anglo-Saxon saints
- 3 The uses of the Old Testament in early medieval canon law: the Collectio Vetus Gallica and the Collectio Hibernensis
- 4 The transmission of tradition: Gregorian influence and innovation in eighth-century Italian monasticism
- 5 The world and its past as Christian allegory in the early Middle Ages
- 6 The Franks as the New Israel? Education for an identity from Pippin to Charlemagne
- 7 Political ideology in Carolingian historiography
- 8 The Annals of Metz and the Merovingian past
- 9 The empire as ecclesia: Hrabanus Maurus and biblical historia for rulers
- 10 Teutons or Trojans? The Carolingians and the Germanic Past
- 11 A man for all seasons: Pacificus of Verona and the creation of a local Carolingian past
- APPENDIX: The Memorial to Pacificus of Verona
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction: using the past, interpreting the present, influencing the future
- 1 Memory, identity and power in Lombard Italy
- 2 Memory and narrative in the cult of early Anglo-Saxon saints
- 3 The uses of the Old Testament in early medieval canon law: the Collectio Vetus Gallica and the Collectio Hibernensis
- 4 The transmission of tradition: Gregorian influence and innovation in eighth-century Italian monasticism
- 5 The world and its past as Christian allegory in the early Middle Ages
- 6 The Franks as the New Israel? Education for an identity from Pippin to Charlemagne
- 7 Political ideology in Carolingian historiography
- 8 The Annals of Metz and the Merovingian past
- 9 The empire as ecclesia: Hrabanus Maurus and biblical historia for rulers
- 10 Teutons or Trojans? The Carolingians and the Germanic Past
- 11 A man for all seasons: Pacificus of Verona and the creation of a local Carolingian past
- APPENDIX: The Memorial to Pacificus of Verona
- Index
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- The Uses of the Past in the Early Middle Ages , pp. v - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000