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Introduction: a study in the education of a society? / Marios Costambeys and Matthew Innes -- Knowledge of the Past: Flavius Josephus: the most influential classical historian of the early Middle Ages / Richard Matthew Pollar -- Bede and the changing image of Rome and the Romans / Paul Hilliard -- Paul the Deacon and Rome / Marios Costambeys -- History and (selective) memory: articulating community and division in Folcuin's Gesta abbatum Lobiensium / Ingrid Rembold -- Appropriate to the religion of their time: Walahfrid's historicisation of the liturgy / Christina Possel -- The order of history: liturgical time and the rhythms of the past in Amalarius of Metz's De ordine Antiphonarii / Graeme Ward -- The Written Word in Early Medieval Europe: The View from the Manuscripts. The manuscript evidence for pharmacy in the early Middle Ages / Nicholas Everett -- Monte Cassino's network of knowledge: the earliest manuscript evidence / Sven Meeder -- Strategies of knowledge organisation in early medieval Latin glossary miscellanies: the example of Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 14388 / Anna Dorofeeva -- 'Dissonance of speech, consonance of meaning': the 862 Council of Aachen and the transmission of Carolingian conciliar records / Charles West -- Texts and Early Medieval Rulers. The Moorish kingdoms and the written word: three 'textual communities' in fifth- and sixth-century Mauretania / Andy Merrills -- When liturgy gets out of hand / Yitzhak Hen; -- The formation of a European identity: revisiting Charlemagne's coinage / Simon Coupland -- Queenship in dispute: Fastrada, history and law / Matthew Innes -- Remembering and forgetting Lothar I / Elina Screen