• Introduction Part One: The Text
• 1: In Search of the Authors
• 2: The Past as a Legal Resource
• 3: Writing, Memory, and Knowledge
• 4: Communities of Memory and Knowledge Part Two: The World
• 5: Gathering the Monastic Estate
• 6: The World of Abbot Peter
• 7: The Long Thirteenth Century: The World of Peter's Continuator
• 8: The Long Thirteenth Century: Peasants and Townspeople Transformed
• 9: The Text and the World Bibliography.
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The Text and the World concerns one highly specific place and document-a medieval Cistercian monastery, and its remarkably interesting history, compiled at the monastery itself, for the monks' use-and explores several subjects now of great interest to all medieval historians, such as ethnicity and interethnic relations; comparative power and lordship; legal conflict; collective memory; and the expansion of literacy in the late-thirteenth century.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)