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Cover -- Series_page -- Commemorating Power in Early Medieval Saxony: Writing and Rewriting the Past at Gandersheim and Quedlinburg -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Maps and Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Commemorating Power in Early Medieval Saxony -- 1: Saxon Female Monasticism c.852-1024 -- The Unique Case of Saxon Convents -- Understanding Saxon Commemoration -- Saxony, Conversion, and the Vita Canonica -- Surveying the Monastic Landscape -- 2: The Origins of Gandersheim -- Gandersheim's Relationships in the Vita Hathumodae -- The Liudolfings -- Corvey and Herford -- Gandersheim and Fulda -- Royal Protection in the Vita Hathumodae -- The Traditio of 877 -- Gandersheim's Relationships in the De obitu Hathumodae dialogus -- Becoming Royal -- 3: Rewriting the Origins of Gandersheim -- The Origin of Gandersheim in the Primordia -- Gandersheim under the Ottonians, 919-978 -- The Reign of Henry I -- The Reign of Otto I -- The Reign of Otto II -- The Motivations of the Primordia -- Sophia and the Gandersheim Conflict -- Gandersheim's Primordia -- 4: The Origins of Quedlinburg -- The Foundation of Quedlinburg -- Quedlinburg and Magdeburg -- Challenges to Royal Authority at Quedlinburg -- The Abbesses of Quedlinburg -- Dynastic Memory and Memoria -- 5: Rewriting the Origins of Quedlinburg -- Queen Mathilda and Quedlinburg in the Early Sources -- Rewriting Quedlinburg's Origins -- The Vita Mathildis Antiquior -- The VMP -- The Quedlinburg Annals -- Uncovering a Memorial Foundation -- Conclusion: Ottonian Convents as Memorial Institutions -- Bibliography -- Index.

Commemorating Power looks at how the past was evoked for political purposes under a new Saxon dynasty, the Ottonians, who came to dominate post-Carolingian Europe after 888 as the rulers of a new empire in Germany and Italy, focusing on two convents of monastic women who played a significant role in Ottonian politics.