Title: The uses of the past in the early Middle Ages /
Authors: Hen, Yitzhak; Innes, Matthew
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Middle Ages Historiography Congresses
Contents: Memory, identity, and power in Lombard Italy / Walter Pohl -- Memory and narrative in the cult of early Anglo-Saxon saints / Catherine Cubitt -- The uses of the Old Testament in early medieval canon law: the Collectio Vetus Gallica and the Collectio Hibernensis / Rob Meens -- The transmission of tradition: Gregorian influence and innovation in eighth-century Italian monasticism / Marios Costambeys -- The world and its past as Christian allegory in the early Middle Ages / Dominic Janes -- The Franks as the new Israel?: Education for an identity from Pippin to Charlemagne / Mary Garrison -- Political ideology in Carolingian historiography / Rosamond McKitterick -- The annals of Metz and the Merovingian past / Yitzhak Hen -- The empire as ecclesia: Hrabanus Maurus and biblical historia for rulers / Mayka De Jong -- Teutons or Trojans? The Carolingian and the Germanic past / Matthew Innes -- A man for all seasons: Pacificus of Verona and the creation of a local Carolingian past / Cristina La Rocca.