{"product_id":"rewriting-saints-and-ancestors-9780812246360","title":"Rewriting Saints and Ancestors","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThinkers in medieval France constantly reconceptualized what had come before, interpreting past events to give validity to the present and help control the future. The long-dead saints who presided over churches and the ancestors of established dynasties were an especially crucial part of creative memory, Constance Brittain Bouchard contends. In \u003ci\u003eRewriting Saints and Ancestors\u003c\/i\u003e she examines how such ex post facto accounts are less an impediment to the writing of accurate history than a crucial tool for understanding the Middle Ages.\u003cbr\u003eWorking backward through time, Bouchard discusses twelfth-century scribes contemplating the ninth-century documents they copied into cartularies or reworked into narratives of disaster and triumph, ninth-century churchmen deliberately forging supposedly late antique documents as weapons against both kings and other churchmen, and sixth- and seventh-century Gallic writers coming to terms with an early Christianity that had neither the saints nor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Notes on Terminology\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Cartularies: Remembering the Documentary Past\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Composition and Purpose of Cartularies\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Twelfth-Century Narratives of the Past\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Polyptyques: Twelfth-Century Monks Face the Ninth Century\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. An Age of Forgery\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Remembering the Carolingians\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Creation of a Carolingian Dynasty\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Western Monasteries and the Carolingians\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Eighth-Century Transitions: The Evidence from Burgundy\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. Great Noble Families in the Early Middle Ages\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. Early Frankish Monasticism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12. Remembering Martyrs and Relics in Sixth-Century Gaul\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Appendix I. Monasteries in Burgundy and Southern Champagne\u003cbr\u003e Appendix II. Churches in Auxerre\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405724098903,"sku":"9780812246360","price":70.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812246360.jpg?v=1730493399","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rewriting-saints-and-ancestors-9780812246360","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}