Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: History and memory in the Carolingian world -- Frankish historical writing and the Liber historiae francorum -- The manuscript transmission: the example of Paris, BnF lat. 10911 -- 2 Carolingian history books -- The Liber pontificalis -- Annales fuldenses -- The Chronicle of Fredegar and its continuations -- History books -- Historical miscellanies -- 3 Paul the Deacon's Historia langobardorum and the Franks -- Paul the Deacon -- The Historia langobardorum: transmission and dissemination -- 4 The Carolingians on their past -- Time and chronology -- The Frankish annals and Easter tables -- The Frankish annals: composition -- The Frankish annals: dissemination -- The Frankish annals: the text and its message -- 5 Politics and history -- 6 Kingship and the writing of history -- The eighth-century evidence -- The Liber pontificalis -- Pope Stephen II (III) and the Franks -- Carolingian kingship -- 7 Social memory, commemoration and the book -- The cartularies -- Libri vitae -- Commemoration and memory: the wider context -- 8 History and memory in early medieval Bavaria -- 9 The reading of history at Lorsch and St Amand -- Lorsch -- St Amand -- 10 Texts, authority and the history of the church -- De viris illustribus -- Eusebius-Rufinus, Historia ecclesiastica -- The Historia tripartita -- The Carolingians and the histories of the Christian church -- 11 Christianity as history -- Canon law and Christian history -- Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare cod. CLXV -- The legend of the True Cross -- The Wessobrunner Gebet codex -- 12 Conclusion: History and its audiences in the Carolingian world -- The crisis of 817: contemporary memory and history -- Historical mindedness in the Carolingian period -- Bibliography.

PRIMARY SOURCES -- SECONDARY LITERATURE -- Index of manuscripts -- General index.