 | Rewriting Saints and Ancestors: Memory and Forgetting in France, 500-1200 Subjects: Historiography -- France -- History -- To 1500; France -- History -- To 987 -- Historiography; France -- History -- Medieval period 987-1515 -- Historiography; France -- History -- To 987 -- Sources; France -- History -- Medieval period 987-1515 -- Sour; Rewriting Saints and Ancestors examines the ways medieval French writers re-remembered and rewrote the lives of saints and dynastic ancestors, reconceptualizing the past in order to make sense of the present. Constance Brittain Bouchard is Distinguished Professor of Medieval History at the University of Akron and author of many books, including Those of My Blood: Creating Noble Families in Medieval Francia, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
