Who, exactly, was responsible for the preservation of knowledge about the past? How did men and women preserve their recollections and pass them on to the next generation? Did they write them down or did they hand them on orally? For the first time, tombstones, medieval encyclopaedias and legal testimonies figure alongside perceptions of the medieval past.

List of Tables. List of Abbreviations. List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Medieval Memories. 1. Keeping It in The Family: Women And Aristocratic Memory, 700-1200. 2. Gender and Memory in Medieval Italy. 3. Men, Women and Miracles in Normandy, 1050-1150. 4. Sworn Testimony and Memory of the Past in Brittany, c.1100-1250. 5. Memories of the Marvelous in the Anglo-Norman Realm. 6. Gendered Memories from Flanders.
7. Nuns' Memories or Missing History in Alsace (c.1200). 8. Images of Royal and Aristocratic Burial in Northern Spain, c.950-c.1250. Further Reading.