The uses of the past in the early Middle Ages / edited by Yitzhak Hen and Matthew Innes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Memory, identity, and power in Lombard Italy / Walter Pohl -- Memory and narrative in the cult of early Anglo-Saxon saints / Catherine Cubitt -- The uses of the Old Testament in early medieval canon law: the Collectio Vetus Gallica and the Collectio Hibernensis / Rob Meens -- The transmission of tradition: Gregorian influence and innovation in eighth-century Italian monasticism / Marios Costambeys -- The world and its past as Christian allegory in the early Middle Ages / Dominic Janes -- The Franks as the new Israel?: Education for an identity from Pippin to Charlemagne / Mary Garrison -- Political ideology in Carolingian historiography / Rosamond McKitterick -- The annals of Metz and the Merovingian past / Yitzhak Hen -- The empire as ecclesia: Hrabanus Maurus and biblical historia for rulers / Mayka De Jong -- Teutons or Trojans? The Carolingian and the Germanic past / Matthew Innes -- A man for all seasons: Pacificus of Verona and the creation of a local Carolingian past / Cristina La Rocca.

This is the first book to investigate how people in the early middle ages used the past: to legitimate the present, to understand current events, and as a source of identity. Each essay examines the mechanisms by which ideas about the past were - sometimes - subtly reshaped for present purposes.

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