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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction -- ONE Remembering and Forgetting in the Eleventh Century -- TWO Men, Women, and Family Memory -- THREE Archival Memory and the Destruction of the Past -- FOUR Unrolling Institutional Memories -- FIVE Political Memory and the Restructuring of the Past -- SIX Remembering Pannonian Dragons -- SEVEN Conclusions -- NOTES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

To obtain sacred relics, medieval monks plundered tombs, avaricious merchants raided churches, and relic-mongers scoured the Roman catacombs. In a revised edition of Furta Sacra, Patrick Geary considers the social and cultural context for these acts, asking how the relics were perceived and why the thefts met with the approval of medieval Christians

In these four artfully crafted essays, Patrick Geary explores the way ancient and medieval authors wrote about women. Geary describes the often marginal role women played in origin legends from antiquity until the twelfth century. Not confining himself to one religious tradition or region, he probes the tensions between women in biblical, classical, and medieval myths (such as Eve, Mary, Amazons, princesses, and countesses), and actual women in ancient and medieval societies. Using these legends as a lens through which to study patriarchal societies, Geary chooses moments and texts that ill

In a document released in November 1997, Defense Reform Initiative: The Busi- ness Strategy for Defense in the 21st Century, then–Secretary of Defense William Cohen stated, "To carry out our defense strategy into the 21st century with military forces able to meet the challenges of the new era, there is no alternative to achieving fundamental reform in how the Defense Department conducts business."1 One initiative spelled out in the document concerns how Defense Department business practices are related to the management of technical data supporting defense weapons systems.

Dans la tradition politique occidentale, rendre la justice est, avec le maintien de la paix, une fonction gouvernementale de la plus haute importance. La justice publique est la clé de voûte de l'ordre moderne tant social que politique ; elle a été, pendant plus de six siècles, le but, et souvent le mécanisme de la création de l'État-nation. A l'opposé d'autres sociétés, comme le Japon, où conventions et conflits, à la fois privés et collectifs, ne nécessitent que rarement l'intervention de tribunaux ou de légistes, la société occidentale a pris l'habitude de voir aplanir les controverses et désaccords ordinaires de la vie d'une société complexe par des institutions judiciaires plus ou moins centralisées. Cela ne signifie pas, naturellement, que, dans la société contemporaine tant française qu'américaine, conflits et différends se règlent devant un tribunal ; au contraire, la majorité se résoud, sans l'aide de la justice, grâce à quelque compromis informel ou extra-juridique.