Phantoms of Remembrance : : Memory and Oblivion at the End of the First Millennium / / Patrick J. Geary.
In Phantoms of Remembrance, Patrick Geary makes important new inroads into the widely discussed topic of historical memory, vividly evoking the everyday lives of eleventh-century people and both their written and nonwritten ways of preserving the past. Women praying for their dead, monks creating an...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1994 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 3 maps. 14 halftones. 4 figs. 3 tables |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction -- ONE Remembering and Forgetting in the Eleventh Century -- TWO Men, Women, and Family Memory -- THREE Archival Memory and the Destruction of the Past -- FOUR Unrolling Institutional Memories -- FIVE Political Memory and the Restructuring of the Past -- SIX Remembering Pannonian Dragons -- SEVEN Conclusions -- NOTES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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Summary: | In Phantoms of Remembrance, Patrick Geary makes important new inroads into the widely discussed topic of historical memory, vividly evoking the everyday lives of eleventh-century people and both their written and nonwritten ways of preserving the past. Women praying for their dead, monks creating and re-creating their archives, scribes choosing which royal families of the past to applaud and which to forget: it is from such sources that most of our knowledge of the medieval period comes. Throughout richly detailed descriptions of various acts of remembrance--including the naming of children and the recording of visions--the author unearths a wide range of approaches to preserving the past as it was or formulating the past that an individual or group prefers to imagine. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781400843541 9783110442496 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781400843541?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Patrick J. Geary. |