Ancient and Medieval Memories
Title | Ancient and Medieval Memories PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Coleman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 670 |
Release | 1992-01-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521411440 |
This book is an analysis of thinking, remembering and reminiscing according to ancient authors, and their medieval readers. The author argues that behind the various medieval methods in interpreting texts of the past lie two apparently incompatible theories of human knowledge and remembering, as well as two differing attitudes to matter and intellect. The book comprises a series of studies which take ancient texts as evidence of the past, and show how medieval readers and writers understood them. The studies confirm that medieval and renaissance interpretations and uses of the past differ greatly from modern interpretation and yet betray many startling continuities between modern and ancient and medieval theories.
Medieval Memories
Title | Medieval Memories PDF eBook |
Author | Elisabeth Van-Houts |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 210 |
Release | 2013-09-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317878833 |
Who, exactly, was responsible for the preservation of knowledge about the past? How did people preserve their recollections and pass them on to the next generation? Did they write them down or did they hand then on orally? The book is concerned with the memories of medieval people. In the Middle Ages, as now, men and women collected stories about the past and handed them down to posterity. Many memories centre in the aristocratic family or lineage while others are focussed on institutions such as monasteries or nunneries. The family and monastic contexts clearly illustrate that remembrance of the past was a task for men and women and that each sex had a specific gendered role. Memory also involves selection of what should and should not be remembered and its corollary, amnesia, therefore, is discussed. Anchored in the present, memory casts a shadow on the future and thus prophecies form an important component of the cult of remembrance. For the first time in Medieval Memories, tombstones, medieval encyclopaedias and legal testimonies figure alongside moral guidebooks, miracle stories and chronicles as material for the gendered perceptions of the medieval past.
Medieval Memories
Title | Medieval Memories PDF eBook |
Author | Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2014 |
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Memory and Commemoration in Medieval Culture
Title | Memory and Commemoration in Medieval Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Dr Elma Brenner |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | 374 |
Release | 2013-04-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1409463435 |
In medieval society and culture, memory occupied a unique position. It was central to intellectual life and the medieval understanding of the human mind. Commemoration of the dead was also a fundamental Christian activity. Above all, the past - and the memory of it - occupied a central position in medieval thinking, from ideas concerning the family unit to those shaping political institutions. Focusing on France but incorporating studies from further afield, this collection of essays marks an important new contribution to the study of medieval memory and commemoration. Arranged thematically, each part highlights how memory cannot be studied in isolation, but instead intersects with many other areas of medieval scholarship, including art history, historiography, intellectual history, and the study of religious culture. Key themes in the study of memory are explored, such as collective memory, the links between memory and identity, the fallibility of memory, and the linking of memory to the future, as an anticipation of what is to come.
The Making of Memory in the Middle Ages
Title | The Making of Memory in the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Lucie Doležalová |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 524 |
Release | 2009-11-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9047441605 |
Based on case studies from across Europe including its ‘peripheries,’ this book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the notion of memory in the Middle Ages concentrating on contructing memory both as individual competence and as part of a society’s identity.
Medieval Concepts of the Past
Title | Medieval Concepts of the Past PDF eBook |
Author | Gerd Althoff |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 370 |
Release | 2002-01-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521780667 |
An analysis of medieval ritual, history, and memory in Germany and the United States.
Memory and Commemoration in Medieval Culture
Title | Memory and Commemoration in Medieval Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Elma Brenner |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 403 |
Release | 2016-04-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317097718 |
In medieval society and culture, memory occupied a unique position. It was central to intellectual life and the medieval understanding of the human mind. Commemoration of the dead was also a fundamental Christian activity. Above all, the past - and the memory of it - occupied a central position in medieval thinking, from ideas concerning the family unit to those shaping political institutions. Focusing on France but incorporating studies from further afield, this collection of essays marks an important new contribution to the study of medieval memory and commemoration. Arranged thematically, each part highlights how memory cannot be studied in isolation, but instead intersects with many other areas of medieval scholarship, including art history, historiography, intellectual history, and the study of religious culture. Key themes in the study of memory are explored, such as collective memory, the links between memory and identity, the fallibility of memory, and the linking of memory to the future, as an anticipation of what is to come.