LEADER 04724nam 2200709 450 001 9910786890303321 005 20210427022450.0 010 $a0-8122-9008-9 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812290080 035 $a(CKB)3710000000224145 035 $a(OCoLC)891398220 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10909218 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001343576 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11847448 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001343576 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11310018 035 $a(PQKB)10891429 035 $a(OCoLC)889219991 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35429 035 $a(DE-B1597)449874 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812290080 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442408 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10909218 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682665 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442408 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000224145 100 $a20140830h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRewriting saints and ancestors $ememory and forgetting in France, 500-1200 /$fConstance Brittain Bouchard 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (379 p.) 225 1 $aMiddle Ages Series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-51383-X 311 $a0-8122-4636-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface --$tNotes on Terminology --$tIntroduction --$t1. Cartularies: Remembering the Documentary Past --$t2. The Composition and Purpose of Cartularies --$t3. Twelfth-Century Narratives of the Past --$t4. Polyptyques: Twelfth-Century Monks Face the Ninth Century --$t5. An Age of Forgery --$t6. Remembering the Carolingians --$t7. Creation of a Carolingian Dynasty --$t8. Western Monasteries and the Carolingians --$t9. Eighth-Century Transitions: The Evidence from Burgundy --$t10. Great Noble Families in the Early Middle Ages --$t11. Early Frankish Monasticism --$t12. Remembering Martyrs and Relics in Sixth-Century Gaul --$tConclusion --$tAppendix I. Monasteries in Burgundy and Southern Champagne --$tAppendix II. Churches in Auxerre --$tList of Abbreviations --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aThinkers in medieval France constantly reconceptualized what had come before, interpreting past events to give validity to the present and help control the future. The long-dead saints who presided over churches and the ancestors of established dynasties were an especially crucial part of creative memory, Constance Brittain Bouchard contends. In Rewriting Saints and Ancestors she examines how such ex post facto accounts are less an impediment to the writing of accurate history than a crucial tool for understanding the Middle Ages. Working backward through time, Bouchard discusses twelfth-century scribes contemplating the ninth-century documents they copied into cartularies or reworked into narratives of disaster and triumph, ninth-century churchmen deliberately forging supposedly late antique documents as weapons against both kings and other churchmen, and sixth- and seventh-century Gallic writers coming to terms with an early Christianity that had neither the saints nor the monasteries that would become fundamental to religious practice. As they met with political change and social upheaval, each generation decided which events of the past were worth remembering and which were to be reinterpreted or quietly forgotten. By considering memory as an analytic tool, Bouchard not only reveals the ways early medieval writers constructed a useful past but also provides new insights into the nature of record keeping, the changing ways dynasties were conceptualized, the relationships of the Merovingian and Carolingian kings to the church, and the discovery (or invention) of Gaul's earliest martyrs. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aHistoriography$zFrance$xHistory$yTo 1500 607 $aFrance$xHistory$yTo 987$xHistoriography 607 $aFrance$xHistory$yMedieval period, 987-1515$xHistoriography 607 $aFrance$xHistory$yTo 987$vSources 607 $aFrance$xHistory$yMedieval period, 987-1515$vSources 610 $aHistory. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 615 0$aHistoriography$xHistory 676 $a944/.01072 700 $aBouchard$b Constance Brittain$0836770 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786890303321 996 $aRewriting saints and ancestors$93839699 997 $aUNINA