With interest in medieval commemoration growing, the nécrologes of the abbey of Saint-Airy, Verdun, are a welcome addition to our understanding of the subject. Necrologies, lists of the dead prayed for by a religious house, have survived well in France – this is the twelfth volume in the Recueil des Historiens de la France: obituaires series – but are comparatively rare in England. They reveal what was widespread practice in English religious houses. These nécrologes have 1,400 entries, a total of 1,842 names, most of which date from between the late eleventh century and the mid-thirteenth century, though additions continued to be made until the seventeenth century. Saint-Airy, an eleventh-century Benedictine foundation, mainly commemorated members of its own community and their benefactors, some of whose benefactions are recorded, and the clergy of other local religious houses. Unlike the cathedral or other prestigious monastic houses such as Saint-Vanne and Saint-Paul, it did not undertake the commemoration of the aristocracy of the region but rather the governing elite of the city. Based on two manuscript lists, the nécrologes have been scrupulously and helpfully edited. In addition to a very full index there are five appendices that identify individuals by gender, religious house and clerical status which act as thematic finding aids.