Introduction Gerd Althoff, Johannes Fried and Patrick J. Geary; 1.
Authority and legitimation of royal policy and action: the case of Henry II
Stefan Weinfurter; 2. King Henry II of Germany: royal self-representation
and historical memory John W. Bernhardt; 3. The variability of rituals in
the Middle Ages Gerd Althoff; 4. Rebels and rituals: from demonstrations of
enmity to criminal justice Hanna Vollrath; 5. Oblivion between orality and
textuality in the tenth century Patrick J. Geary; 6. Text and ritual in
ninth-century political culture: Rome, 864 Philippe Buc; 7. The concept of
time in the historiography of the eleventh and twelfth centuries
Hans-Werner Goetz; 8. Constructing the past by means of the present:
historiographical foundations of medieval institutions, dynasties, peoples,
and communities Bernd Schneidmüller; 9. Topographies of memory: center and
periphery in High Medieval France Amy G. Remensnyder; 10. Challenging the
culture of memoria: dead men, oblivion, and the 'faithless widow' in the
Middle Ages Bernhard Jussen; 11. Artistic and literary representations of
family consciousness John B. Freed; 12. The strange pilgrimage of Odo of
Deuil Beate Schuster; 13. The Rhineland massacres of Jews in the First
Crusade: memories medieval and modern David Nirenberg; 14. The martyr, the
tomb, and the matron: constructing the (Masculine) 'Past' as a female power
base Felice Lifshitz.
