The making of memory in the Middle Ages / / edited by Lucie Dolezalova.

• Superior document: Later medieval Europe, v. 4
• TeilnehmendeR: Dolezalova, Lucie.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Later medieval Europe ; v. 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (524 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Memory in the Middle Ages has received particular attention in recent decades; yet; the topic remains difficult to grasp and the research on it rather fragmented. This book gathers particular case studies on memory in different parts of medieval Europe and in a variety of fields including literatures, languages, manuscript studies, history, history of ideas, philosophy, social history and art history. The studies address, on the one hand, memory as means of storing and recuperating knowledge (arts of memory and memory aids), and, on the other hand, memory as remembering and constructing the past (including the subject of forgetting). It should be useful to all interested in medieval culture, literature and history. Contributors are Milena Bartlová, Bergsveinn Birgisson, Irene Bueno, Vincent Challet, Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Lucie Doležalová, Dávid Falvay, Carmen Florea, Cédric Giraud, Laura Iseppi de Filippis, Farkas Gábor Kiss, Rüdiger Lorenz, Else Mundal, Előd Nemerkényi, William J. Purkis, Slavica Ranković, Lucia Raspe, Kimberly Rivers, Victoria Smirnova, Francesco Stella, Péter Tóth, Tamás Visi, Jon Whitman and Rafał Wójcik.

Table of Contents

Revisiting memory in the Middle Ages (introduction) / Lucie Dolezalova and Tamas Visi -- Communal memory of the distributed author : applicability of the connectionist model of memory to the study of traditional narratives / Slavica Rankovic.

pt. 1. Storing and recuperating knowledge -- The art of memory in practice -- Writing the memory of the virtues and vices in Johannes Sintram's (d. 1450) preaching aids / Kimberly Rivers -- Memory, meditation, and preaching : a fifteenth-century memory machine in Central Europe (the text Nota hanc figuram composuerunt doctores ... /Pro aliquali intelligentia ...) / Farkas Gabor Kiss -- The staging of memory : ars memorativa and the spectacle of imagination in late medieval preaching in Poland / Rafal Wojcik -- On mistake and meaning : scinderationes fonorum in medieval artes memoriae, mnemonic verses, and manuscripts / Lucie Dolezalova -- Mnemonic aids -- The verse Bible as aide-memoire / Greti Dinkova-Bruun -- Exhibete membra vestra : verbal and visual enthymeme as late medieval mnemotechnics / Laura Iseppi De Filippis -- The late medieval summa Iovis as a case study for the use of poems as mnemonic aids / Rudiger Lorenz -- Pseudo-apocryphal dialogue as a tool for the memorization of scholastic wisdom : the farewell of Christ to Mary and the Liber de vita Christi by Jacobus / Peter Toth -- The Old Norse kenning as a mnemonic figure / Bergsveinn Birgisson.

pt. 2. Remembering and forgetting the past -- Literary strategies -- The landscape as a memory construction in the Latin Petrarch / Francesco Stella -- Posthumous messages : memory, romance, and the Morte d'Arthur / Jon Whitman -- "And nothing will be wasted" : actualization of the past in Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus miraculorum / Victoria Smirnova -- Social contexts -- The Latin vocabulary of memory in medieval Hungary / Elod Nemerkenyi -- The construction of memory and the display of social bonds in the Life of Corpus Christi Fraternity from Sibiu Hermannstadt, Nagyszeben / Carmen Florea -- Props of memory, triggers of narration : time and space in medieval Jewish hagiography / Lucia Raspe -- Individual versus collective memories -- Anselm of Laon in the twelfth-century schools : between fama and memoria / Cedric Giraud -- Memory and hagiography : the formation of the memory of three thirteenth-century female saints / David Falvay -- Dixit quod non recordatur : memory as proof in inquisitorial trials (early fourteenth-century France) / Irene Bueno -- Forgetting -- Peasants' revolts memories : damnatio memoriae or hidden memories? / Vincent Challet -- Remembering and forgetting the Sabians : Moses Maimonides, Moses Narboni, and Eleazar Eilenburg / Tamas Visi -- Constructing the past -- The past as a precedent : crusade, reconquest, and twelfth-century memories of a Christian Iberia / William J. Purkis -- Memory of the past and Old Norse identity / Else Mundal -- In memoriam defunctorum : visual arts as devices of memory / Elena Bartlova.