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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Quedlinburg Abbey's Medieval History in Ever-Changing Political and Religious Frameworks: A Survey -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Abbey of St. Servatius, Queens, Kings, and Royal Abbesses in the Ottonian Era -- 3 Royal Tradition and Political Challenges in the 11th and Early 12th Century -- 4 Quedlinburg Abbey in Changing Surroundings -- 5 A Traditional Community in Times of Religious Upheaval -- Works Cited -- 2 Quedlinburg in the 10th and 11th Centuries: An Archaeological View -- 3 Quedlinburg: The Conventual Buildings from an Architectural History Perspective -- 1 The Monastic Complex (Figure 3.1) -- 2 The Conventual Buildings -- 2.1 Chapel on the South Side of the Transept -- 3 Gatehouse and Gate on the North (Figure 3.4) -- 4 Former Cloister: Western Residential Complex (Figure 3.7) -- 5 Abbey Church -- 6 The Oldest Church Buildings (in the Present Crypt) (Figure 3.10) -- 7 The Collegiate Church in the Salian Period: Appearance and Alterations -- 7.1 The Exterior-Towers, Nave, Transept, and Choir -- 7.1.1 Apse and Choir (Figure 3.11) -- 7.1.2 Transept and Side Apses -- 7.1.3 Nave (Figure 3.12) -- 7.1.4 West Towers -- 7.2 The Interior -- 7.2.1 The Nave (Figure 3.14) -- 7.2.2 Crossing and Transept (Figure 3.15) -- 7.3 Elevated Choir -- 8 The Romanesque Crypt (Figure 3.17) -- 9 Summary: The Castle (Figure 3.18) -- 10 Summary: The Abbey -- 4 For the Living and the Dead: Memorial Prayers of the Quedlinburg Canonesses -- 5 Psallite sapienter: Psalms and Learning at Quedlinburg -- 1 Singing Psalms Wisely -- 2 Background on Quedlinburg -- 3 Learning the Psalms: Orthodoxy, Univocality -- 4 Music and Movement-The Physicality of the Psalms -- 5 Singing Wisely: Study and Song in Quedlinburg Codex 76 -- 6 Reception -- 7 Coda.

6 Abbatial Effigies and Conventual Identity at St. Servatius, Quedlinburg -- 7 Bracteates of the Abbesses of Quedlinburg: Romanesque Craftwork of Great Quality -- 1 Abbess Beatrix II, Countess of Winzenburg, 1138-60 -- 2 Abbess Meregart, 1160-61 (?) -- 3 Abbess Adelheid III, 1161-84 -- 4 Abbess Agnes II of Meissen, 1184-1203 -- 5 Abbess Sophia of Brehna, 1203-26 -- 8 The Quedlinburg Frieze and Its Romanesque Context -- 1 Imperial Environments -- 2 Mediterranean Pathways -- 3 Historiographic Interventions -- 4 Conclusions -- 9 Of Donors and Patrons: The Abbey of St. Servatius in Quedlinburg as a Site of Remembrance -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 10 A Reliquary Revisited: The Reliquary of St. Servatius and Its Contexts -- 1 Before Quedlinburg: The Servatius Reliquary's Carolingian Core -- 2 From Metz to Fulda and Everywhere in between: The Question of Workshops -- 3 The Carolingian Casket: Iconographies of Liminality and Duality -- 4 Tradition and Traditio Legis: Accounting for Apostles and Arcades -- 5 The Servatius Reliquary in a Carolingian Context -- 6 Arrival in St. Servatius: Quedlinburg and Post-Easter Politics -- 7 Romanesque Renovations: A Capsa Remade, An Abbess Remembered -- 8 From Reliquary to Propaganda: The Reliquary of St. Servatius in the Modern Era -- 11 Matter and Spirit: Reliquaries at St. Servatius in the 13th Century -- 1 The Past and Prestige -- 2 Messages, Materials, Meanings -- 3 Patronage, Production, Presentation -- 12 Restored, Repurposed, Reassessed: The Abbey Church of Quedlinburg across Five Germanies -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Formulating a German Aesthetic in the 19th Century -- 3 The Heinrich Celebrations and the Renovation of "King Henry's Cathedral" under National Socialism -- 4 Postwar Reckoning -- Dates of the Quedlinburg Abbesses, German Kings, and Bishops of Halberstadt -- Abbesses of Quedlinburg.

German Kings and Emperors -- Bishops of Halberstadt -- Manuscripts -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index.