Prologue: That which returns to the same place
The archaeology of a proper name (1447)
Ambrose as self-inventor (374)
"But the whole was myself": Ambrose and Augustine (384-386)
Paulinus of Milan : a first crisis in the memory of Ambrose (397-430)
The first showdown : Ambrose and the Basilicas (386)
Legendary topography of Ambrose's memory in Milan (5th-16th century)
A life in pieces : the golden altar and the Carolingian crystallization of Ambrosian memory (9th century)
Seeing Ambrose : ghostly tales (10th-11th century)
Reading Ambrose : textual tales (4th-12th century)
Seeing Ambrose again : visual tales (12th century)
The saintly knight (13th-14th century)
Forgetting, then starting over (1450-1550)
Mysterious beginnings : the invention of a liturgical tradition (15th-9th century)
The magic of hymns : singing as in Ambrose's Tim
The ministry of glory : the last of the new Ambroses.
