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Part I. Memory and images

Images and the Work of Memory : The Sixth-Century Mosaics of Ravenna, Italy / Jean-Claude Schmitt (translated from the French by Marie-Pierre Gelin)

"Images Gross and Sensible" : Violence, Memory and Art in the Thirteenth Century / Martha Easton

Beyond the Two Doors of Memory : Intertextualities and Intervisualities in Thirteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts of the Roman de Troie and the Histoire Ancienne / Rosa María Rodríguez Porto

Part II. Commemoration and oblivion

The Making of the Carolingian Libri Memoriales : Exploring or Constructing the Past? / Eva-Maria Butz and Alfons Zettler

Status and the Soul : Commemoration and Intercession in the Rayonnant Chapels of Northern France in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries / Mailan S. Doquang

Ritual Excommunication : An "Ars Oblivionalis"? / Christian Jaser

Part III. Memory, Reading and Performance

The Speculum Maius, Between Thesaurus and Lieu de Mémoire / Mary Franklin-Brown

The Memory of Roman Law in an Illuminated Manuscript of Justinian's Digest / Joanna Fronska

"Quant j'eus tout recordé par ordre" : Memory and Performance on Display in the Manuscripts of Guillaume de Machaut's Voir Dit and Remede de Fortune / Kate Maxwell

Acrostics as Copyright Protection in the Franco-Italian Epic : Implications for Memory Theory / John F. Levy

Part IV. Royal and Aristocratic Memory and Commemoration

Changes of Aristocratic Identity : Remarriage and Remembrance in Europe 900-1200 / Elisabeth van Houts

Longchamp and Lourcine : The Role of Female Abbeys in the Construction of Capetian Memory (Late Thirteenth Century to Mid-Fourteenth Century) / Anne-Hélène Allirot (translated from the French by Lewis Beer)

Louis IX and Liturgical Memory / M. Cecilia Gaposchkin

Part V. Remembering Medieval France

Pierre Loti's "Memories" of the Middle Ages : Feasting on the Gothic in 1888 / Elizabeth Emery

Celebrating the Medieval Past in Modern Cluny : How Popular Events Helped Shape Collective Memory for a Small French Town / Janet T. Marquardt

"A Mere Patch of Color" : Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Shattered Glass of Reims Cathedral / Shirin Fozi.

Memory > Social aspects > Europe > History > To 1500.

Memorials > Europe > History > To 1500.

Europe > History > 476-1492.

Europe > Social life and customs.

Europe > Intellectual life.