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Tracing the oral and written memories of families and monastic communities through chronicles, saints' lives, and material objects such as jewellery and memorial stones, Elisabeth van Houts argues that in the Middle Ages, as now, the knowledge of the past was shaped by men as well as women. Men may have dominated the pages of literature but many of the stories they wrote were told to them by women. The Norman Conquest of England in 1066 provides a case study to illustrate the ways in which one memorable event reverberated through the generations. In England and Normandy, men and women remembered their ancestors' experiences: the worst were kept alive orally for a long time before they were written down, the best were put on paper straight away.

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• General Editor's Preface(p. viii)
• Acknowledgements(p. x)
• Foreword(p. xi)
• 1 Introduction(p. 1)
• Part I Gender and the Authority of Oral Witnesses(p. 17)
• 2 Chronicles and Annals(p. 19)
• 3 Saints' Lives and Miracles(p. 41)
• Part II Remembrance of the Past(p. 63)
• 4 Ancestors, Family Repuation and Female Traditions(p. 65)
• 5 Objects as Pegs for Memory(p. 93)
• Part III One Event Remembered(p. 121)
• 6 The Memory of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066(p. 123)
• 7 Conclusion(p. 143)
• Appendices
• 1 Aethelweard's letter to Abbess Matilda of Essen(p. 151)
• 2 Count Rainald of Burgundy's letter to Guy Geoffrey of Aquitaine(p. 153)
• 3 Beatrix's letter to her brother Bishop Udo of Hildesheim(p. 154)
• 4 Robert of Torigni's genealogies of Countess Gunnor's relatives(p. 156)
• 5 Lambert of Wattrelos's family history(p. 159)
• 6 Letter 33 from Gui of Bazoches to his nephew Rainald(p. 161)
• Abbreviations(p. 162)
• Notes(p. 163)
• Further Reading(p. 180)
• Index(p. 187)

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Elisabeth van Houts is Lecturer in Medieval History at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge