The resources of the past in early medieval Europe

Introduction : cultural memory and the resources of the past / Walter Pohl and Ian Wood

PART I. LEARNING EMPIRE

Creating cultural resources for Carolingian rule : historians of the Christian empire / Walter Pohl

Cassiodorus' Historia tripartita before the earliest extant manuscript / Désirée Scholten

Politics and penance : transformations in the Carolingian perception of the conversion of Carloman (747) / Erik Goosman

Lessons in leadership : Constantine and Theodosius I in Frechulf of Lisieux's Histories / Graeme Ward

PART II. THE BIBLICAL PAST

Carolingian political discourse and the Biblical past : Hraban, Dhuoda, Radbert / Mayke de Jong

Biblical past and canonical present : the case of the Collectio 400 capitulorum / Sven Meeder

Divine law and imperial rule : the Carolingian reception of Junillus Africanus / Marianne Pollheimer

Framing Ambrose in the resources of the past : the late antique and early medieval sources for a Carolingian portrait of Ambrose / Giorgia Vicino

PART III. CHANGING SENSES OF THE OTHER FROM THE FOURTH TO THE ELEVENTH CENTURIES

Pagans, rebels and Merovingians : otherness in the early Carolingian world / Richard Broome

Who are the Philistines? : Bede's readings of Old Testament peoples / Ian Wood

Gens perfida or populus Christianus? : Saxon (in)fidelity in Frankish historical writing / Robert Flierman

Fragmented identities : otherness and authority in Adam of Bremen's History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen / Timothy Barnwell

PART IV. THE MIGRATION OF CULTURAL TRADITIONS IN EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE

Transformations of the Roman past and Roman identity in the early Middle Ages / Rosamond McKitterick

The eighth-century papacy as cultural broker / Clemens Gantner

Transformations of late antiquity : the writing and re-writing of church history at the monastery of Lorsch, c. 800 / Helmut Reimitz

Conclusion / Mayke de Jong and Rosamond McKitterick.