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The broad subject of memory is explored in a collection of eight essays, all of which prize the storytelling to be found in medieval chronicles and paintings. Van Houts (medieval history, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK) has contributed an introduction; other papers consider Herrad of Hohenbourg's Garden of Delights , the painted decoration of San Isidoro in Le=n, the lives of a Flemish saint, the autobiography of Abbot Guibert of Nogent, 13th-century inquest records in Brittany, records of wonders in Anglo-Saxon texts, and miracle stories and gender in Romanesque Normandy. The contributors are medieval historians in the UK and the Netherlands. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
