This volume brings together scholars of History, Manuscript Studies, and Art and Architectural History to examine in conversation the varieties of medieval archival acts.

Emily N. Savage is an Associate Lecturer in the School of Art History, University of St Andrews. She received her PhD from the same institution in 2017 and also holds degrees from the University of York and New York University. Her research and teaching encompasses, broadly, the material culture of late medieval devotion, and she has previously published on the object lives of devotional manuscripts. She is currently leading the development of a new postgraduate program at the intersection of digital humanities and art history for St Andrews.

Introduction, Savage / Part I. Historical Inquiry / "History in the Making: Categories, Techniques and Chronology in Church Collections, c. 800-1400", Inglis / "Reflecting a Golden Age: The Material Composition of History in the Mosan Treasury", Mattison / "Collecting, Curating and Assembling: The Records of Medieval St Andrews in the University of St Andrews Library," Hart / "The B-side of the Parchment: Two Medieval Monastic Archives from the Kingdom of León", Ceballos-Roa and del Carmen Rodríguez-López / "Collecting, Curating and Remembering in the Cathedral of Seville: a Portable Written Archive from the Fifteenth Century", Belmonte Fernández / "A Late Medieval Inventory from St Peter Mancroft, Norwich (BL Stowe MS 871): Register, Record, Teaching Resource", Stewart / Part II. Archival Acts: Making Meaning, Shaping Memory / "Reliquary-Monstrances as Archival Signatures: How Bolognese Notaries Shaped the Meaning of Archives, 1289-1294", Kuersteiner / "The Locus Credibilis and the Making of Urban Authority: Preserving the Written Word in Metz (Fourteenth to Fifteenth Centuries)", Marineau-Pelletier / "The Afterlives of Funeral Palls: Notes from the Sacristy of St. Thomas', Prague, c. 1410", Calvarin / "Appropriating the Archive: Promoting Legitimacy and Shaping Historical Memory through the Library of John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford", Amit / "The Ties That Bind: Recompiling and (Re)storing Identity in a Flemish Family 'Archive'", Wilson Ruffo.