Memory and Commemoration in Medieval Culture (Paperback, 1)

Contents: Introduction, Elma Brenner, Meredith Cohen and Mary Franklin-Brown; Part I Memory and Images: Images and the work of memory, with special reference to the 6th-century mosaics of Ravenna, Italy, Jean-Claude Schmitt (trans. Marie-Pierre Gelin); ’Images gross and sensible’: violence, memory and art in the 13th century, Martha Easton; Beyond the two doors of memory: intertextualities and intervisualities in 13th-century illuminated manuscripts of the Roman de Troie and the Histoire Ancienne, Rosa MarA­a RodrA­guez Porto. Part II Commemoration and Oblivion: The making of the Carolingian Libri Memoriales: exploring or constructing the past?, Eve-Maria Butz and Alfons Zettler; Status and the soul: commemoration and intercession in the rayonnant chapels of Northern France in the 13th and 14th 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 memoire, Mary Franklin-Brown; The memory of Roman law in an illuminated manuscript of Justinian’s Digest, Joanna Fronska; ’Quant j’eus tout recorde 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 13th century to mid-14th century), Anne-Helene Allirot (trans. 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 helpe