History and Memory in the Carolingian World

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Abbreviations......Page 15
1 Introduction: History and memory in the Carolingian world......Page 19
Frankish historical writing and the Liber historiae francorum......Page 27
The manuscript transmission: the example of Paris, BnF lat. 10911......Page 31
2 Carolingian history books......Page 46
The Liber pontificalis......Page 50
Annales fuldenses......Page 51
The Chronicle of Fredegar and its continuations......Page 54
History books......Page 57
Historical miscellanies......Page 68
3 Paul the Deacon’s Historia langobardorum and the Franks......Page 78
Paul the Deacon......Page 84
The Historia langobardorum: transmission and dissemination......Page 95
4 The Carolingians on their past......Page 102
Time and chronology......Page 104
The Frankish annals and Easter tables......Page 115
The Frankish annals: composition......Page 119
The Frankish annals: dissemination......Page 129
The Frankish annals: the text and its message......Page 131
5 Politics and history......Page 138
6 Kingship and the writing of history......Page 151
The eighth-century evidence......Page 155
The Liber pontificalis......Page 160
Pope Stephen II (III) and the Franks......Page 163
Carolingian kingship......Page 169
7 Social memory, commemoration and the book......Page 174
The cartularies......Page 175
Libri vitae......Page 180
Commemoration and memory: the wider context......Page 190
8 History and memory in early medieval Bavaria......Page 192
9 The reading of history at Lorsch and St Amand......Page 204
Lorsch......Page 214
St Amand......Page 228
10 Texts, authority and the history of the church......Page 236
De viris illustribus......Page 239
Eusebius-Rufinus, Historia ecclesiastica......Page 244
The Historia tripartita......Page 251
The Carolingians and the histories of the Christian church......Page 253
11 Christianity as history......Page 263
Canon law and Christian history......Page 267
Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare cod. CLXV......Page 274
The legend of the True Cross......Page 277
The Wessobrunner Gebet codex......Page 280
The crisis of 817: contemporary memory and history......Page 283
Historical mindedness in the Carolingian period......Page 291
PRIMARY SOURCES......Page 302
SECONDARY LITERATURE......Page 311
Index of manuscripts......Page 341
General index......Page 345