1. Introduction: using the past, interpreting the present, influencing the
future Matthew Innes; 2. Memory, identity and power in Lombard Italy Walter
Pohl; 3. Memory and narrative in the cult of the early Anglo-Saxon saints
Catherine Cubitt; 4. The uses of the Old Testament in early medieval canon
law: the Collectio vetus gallica and the Collectio hiberniensis Rob Meens;
5. The transmission of tradition: Gregorian influence and innovation in
eighth-century Italian monasticism Marios Costambeys; 6. The world and its
past as Christian allegory in the early middle ages Dominic Janes; 7. The
Franks as the new Israel? Education for an identity from Pippin to
Charlemagne Mary Garrison; 8. Political ideology in Carolingian
historiography Rosamond McKitterick; 9. The annals of Metz and the
Merovingian past Yitzhak Hen; 10. The empire as ecclesia: Hrabanus Maurus
and Biblical historia for rulers Mayke de Jong; 11. Teutons or Trojans? The
Carolingians and the Germanic past Matthew Innes; 12. A man for all
seasons: Pacifus of Verona and the creation of a local Carolingian past
Cristina La Rocca.

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