The Destruction and Recovery of Monte Cassino, 529-1964 / / Kriston R. Rennie.
Between the sixth and twentieth centuries, the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino (est. 529) experienced a cycle of atrocities which forever transformed its identity. This book examines how such a tumultuous history has been constructed, remembered, and represented from the Middle Ages to the presen...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Italy in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (246 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Prologue: The Oak Tree -- Part I Animus and Anchor -- 1. An Enigma: The Legend of Saint Benedict -- 2. The ‘Citadel of Campania’: Growth and Prosperity -- Part II Rise and Fall -- 3. A Destiny Repeated: Episodes of Destruction -- 4. Floreat Semper: Rebuilding, Stone by Stone -- Part III Preservation and Valorisation -- 5. The People’s Patrimony: Defining Historical Value -- 6. A New Europe: Erasing the Destruction -- Epilogue: Lighthouse -- References -- Index |
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Summary: | Between the sixth and twentieth centuries, the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino (est. 529) experienced a cycle of atrocities which forever transformed its identity. This book examines how such a tumultuous history has been constructed, remembered, and represented from the Middle Ages to the present day. It uses this singular and pivotal case to analyse the historical process of remembering and its impact on modern representations of the past. Exactly how Monte Cassino is remembered is distinctive and diagnostic. The abbey is recognizable today as a beacon of western civilization, culture, and learning precisely because of its 'destruction tradition' over fourteen centuries. This book asks how the abbey's fragmented past has been ideologically, politically, and culturally constituted and preserved; how its experience with destruction and suffering - and recovery and rebirth - has become incorporated into a modern narrative of progress and triumph. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9789048552122 9783110743227 9783110743357 9783110754001 9783110753776 9783110754087 9783110753851 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9789048552122?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Kriston R. Rennie. |