Constance Brittain Bouchard is Distinguished Professor of Medieval History at the University of Akron and author of many books, including Those of My Blood: Creating Noble Families in Medieval Francia, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

"Constance Bouchard has written a substantial, important, and complex book, the fruit of her deep engagement with a range of issues relating to early medieval memory in the area that would become France." (Amy Remensnyder, Brown University)

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceNotes on TerminologyIntroductionChapter 1. Cartularies: Remembering the Documentary PastChapter 2. The Composition and Purpose of CartulariesChapter 3. Twelfth-Century Narratives of the PastChapter 4. Polyptyques: Twelfth-Century Monks Face the Ninth CenturyChapter 5. An Age of ForgeryChapter 6. Remembering the CarolingiansChapter 7. Creation of a Carolingian DynastyChapter 8. Western Monasteries and the CarolingiansChapter 9. Eighth-Century Transitions: The Evidence from BurgundyChapter 10. Great Noble Families in the Early Middle AgesChapter 11. Early Frankish MonasticismChapter 12. Remembering Martyrs and Relics in Sixth-Century GaulConclusionAppendix I. Monasteries in Burgundy and Southern ChampagneAppendix II. Churches in AuxerreList of AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

Constance Brittain Bouchard is Distinguished Professor of Medieval History at the University of Akron and author of many books, including Those of My Blood: Creating Noble Families in Medieval Francia, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

"Constance Bouchard has written a substantial, important, and complex book, the fruit of her deep engagement with a range of issues relating to early medieval memory in the area that would become France." (Amy Remensnyder, Brown University)

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceNotes on TerminologyIntroductionChapter 1. Cartularies: Remembering the Documentary PastChapter 2. The Composition and Purpose of CartulariesChapter 3. Twelfth-Century Narratives of the PastChapter 4. Polyptyques: Twelfth-Century Monks Face the Ninth CenturyChapter 5. An Age of ForgeryChapter 6. Remembering the CarolingiansChapter 7. Creation of a Carolingian DynastyChapter 8. Western Monasteries and the CarolingiansChapter 9. Eighth-Century Transitions: The Evidence from BurgundyChapter 10. Great Noble Families in the Early Middle AgesChapter 11. Early Frankish MonasticismChapter 12. Remembering Martyrs and Relics in Sixth-Century GaulConclusionAppendix I. Monasteries in Burgundy and Southern ChampagneAppendix II. Churches in AuxerreList of AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

Constance Brittain Bouchard is Distinguished Professor of Medieval History at the University of Akron and author of many books, including Those of My Blood: Creating Noble Families in Medieval Francia, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

"Constance Bouchard has written a substantial, important, and complex book, the fruit of her deep engagement with a range of issues relating to early medieval memory in the area that would become France." (Amy Remensnyder, Brown University)

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceNotes on TerminologyIntroductionChapter 1. Cartularies: Remembering the Documentary PastChapter 2. The Composition and Purpose of CartulariesChapter 3. Twelfth-Century Narratives of the PastChapter 4. Polyptyques: Twelfth-Century Monks Face the Ninth CenturyChapter 5. An Age of ForgeryChapter 6. Remembering the CarolingiansChapter 7. Creation of a Carolingian DynastyChapter 8. Western Monasteries and the CarolingiansChapter 9. Eighth-Century Transitions: The Evidence from BurgundyChapter 10. Great Noble Families in the Early Middle AgesChapter 11. Early Frankish MonasticismChapter 12. Remembering Martyrs and Relics in Sixth-Century GaulConclusionAppendix I. Monasteries in Burgundy and Southern ChampagneAppendix II. Churches in AuxerreList of AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments