Frontmatter -- Contents -- Ilustrations -- Preface -- Notes on Terminology -- Introduction -- 1. Cartularies: Remembering the Documentary Past -- 2. The Composition and Purpose of Cartularies -- 3. Twelfth-Century Narratives of the Past -- 4. Polyptyques: Twelfth-Century Monks Face the Ninth Century -- 5. An Age of Forgery -- 6. Remembering the Carolingians -- 7. Creation of a Carolingian Dynasty -- 8. Western Monasteries and the Carolingians -- 9. Eighth-Century Transitions: The Evidence from Burgundy -- 10. Great Noble Families in the Early Middle Ages -- 11. Early Frankish Monasticism -- 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
Summary
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
