Phantoms of Remembrance : : Memory and Oblivion at the End of the First Millennium / / Patrick J. Geary.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Geary, Patrick J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 3 maps. 14 halftones. 4 figs. 3 tables

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.

Table of Contents

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