FRANCESCA TINTI is Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU D. A. WOODMAN is Fellow and Senior Tutor of Robinson College, Cambridge. D. A. WOODMAN is Fellow and Senior Tutor of Robinson College, Cambridge. FRANCESCA TINTI is Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU LAURA CLEAVER is Professor of Manuscript Studies at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. THOMAS O'DONNELL is Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Fordham University, New York, USA.

• 1 Framing the Past: Charters and Chronicles at Worcester, c.1050-c.1150- Francesca Tinti and D. A. Woodman2 Identities in Community: Literary Culture and Memory at Worcester- Thomas O'Donnell3 Preserving Records and Writing History in Worcester's Conquest-Era Archives- Jonathan Herold4 Constructing Narrative in the Closing Folios of Hemming's Cartulary- Francesca Tinti5 Worcester's Own History: an Account of the Foundation of the See and a Summary of Benefactions, AD 680-1093- Susan Kelly6 Worcester and the English Reception of Marianus ScotusC. Philipp E. Nothaft7 History Books at Worcester, c.1050-1150, and the Making of the Worcester Chronicle- Laura Cleaver8 Poetry in the Worcester Chronicula (TCD MS 503)- D. A. Woodman9 Networks of Chronicle Writing in Western Britain: the Case of Worcester and Wales- Georgia Henley

The collection is a model of careful scholarship that is not afraid to be methodologically innovative... The essays could almost have been written by a single author. The collection contains only the bare minimum of repetition required to allow each essay to stand on its own. The editors have created a model that group studies of other centers of historical production would do well to follow.