Summary In this volume, scholars from North America and Europe explore the intersection of medieval identity with ethnicity, religion, power, law, inheritance, texts, and memory. They offer new historiographical interventions into questions of identity, but also of ethnonyms, conflict studies, the feudal revolution, gender and kinship studies, and local history. Employing interdisciplinary approaches and textual hermeneutics, the authors represent an international scholarly community characterized by intellectual restlessness, historiographical experimentation, and defiance of convention. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction?Hans HUMMER, Courtney M. BOOKER, and Dana M. POLANICHKA Ethnic Identities Se d pouiller du vieil homme: Identit s barbares dans l'empire romain tardif?Jean-Pierre POLY Observing Peoples as Peoples: The Study of Ethnicity in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages?Helmut REIMITZ The King of the Nem tzioi and his Neighbours to the East ?Herwig WOLFRAM Inheritance and Identity Inheriting Identity and Constructing History in Medieval Ravenna?Edward M. SCHOOLMAN Secundum Legem: Gender, Law, and Ethnicity in Early Medieval Southern Italian Documents?Sarah WHITTEN Kinship and Inheritance in Early Medieval Europe?Hans HUMMER Religious Identities The Blackbird, the Basilisk, and the Evicted Corpse: Sacralizing Landscape in Jacopo da Varagine's Genoese Relic Treatises?Carrie E. BENE? Hagiography as Political Theology: A Mid-Fourteenth-Century Case from Bulgaria?Boris A. TODOROV The Crumbs of the Crumbs: Dhuoda and the Mid-Ninth-Century Carolingian Church?Dana M. POLANICHKA Legal and Political Identities Pragmatic Sanctions? The Peace of God and its Carolingian Antecedents?Geoffrey KOZIOL Violence in Early Capetian v. Early Valois France: Same Behaviour, Different Ideas of Order? ?Warren BROWN Anti-Corruption Measures in the Legislation of Thirteenth-Century Hungary?Cosmin POPA-GORJANU Memories, Texts, and Identities Invoking Gregory on the Caelian in Medieval Rome: A Study of an Inscription at SS. Giovanni e Paolo?Maya MASKARINEC (Re)Visions of the World: Prester John in Twelfth-Century Bavaria?John ELDEVIK An Alleged Oratio of Boniface to Pippin in 751?Courtney M. BOOKER *** Index of Manuscripts Index of Scriptural References Index of Non-Biblical Sources Index of Names and Places General Index