Memory and commemoration in medieval culture / edited by Elma Brenner, Meredith Cohen, Mary Franklin-Brown.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Mar Rodruez 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 Moire / Mary Franklin-Brown -- The Memory of Roman Law in an Illuminated Manuscript of Justinian's Digest / Joanna Fronska --'Quant j'eus tout recordpar 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-H{u196E}e 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.