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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.
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The resources of the past in early medieval Europe. ISBN 9781107463820. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.