Coming to terms with the late medieval altarpiece -- A tale of two retables from the Benedictine Monsatery of Crisenon in the Musee-Abbaye Saint-Germain, Auxerre -- The aesthetics of immersion : the reception of the retable by the worshipers -- Engagement with the pathos of the Passion -- The role of the frame -- Epilogue: the late medieval altarpiece as house of memory.