Medieval Concepts of the Past: Ritual, Memory, Historiography Book

	List of Illustrations
	List of Contributors
	Introduction	1
1	Authority and Legitimation of Royal Policy and Action: The Case of Henry II	19
2	King Henry II of Germany: Royal Self-Representation and Historical Memory	39
3	The Variability of Rituals in the Middle Ages	71
4	Rebels and Rituals: From Demonstrations of Enmity to Criminal Justice	89
5	Oblivion Between Orality and Textuality in the Tenth Century	111
6	Text and Ritual in Ninth-Century Political Culture: Rome, 864	123
7	The Concept of Time in the Historiography of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries	139
8	Constructing the Past by Means of the Present: Historiographical Foundations of Medieval Institutions, Dynasties, Peoples, and Communities	167
9	Topographies of Memory: Center and Periphery in High Medieval France	193
10	Challenging the Culture of Memoria: Dead Men, Oblivion, and the "Faithless Widow" in the Middle Ages	215
11	Artistic and Literary Representations of Family Consciousness	233
12	The Strange Pilgrimage of Odo of Deuil	253
13	The Rhineland Massacres of Jews in the First Crusade: Memories Medieval and Modern	279
14	The Martyr, the Tomb, and the Matron: Constructing the (Masculine) "Past" as a Female Power Base	311
	Index	343