Format:
Online-Ressource (ix, 283 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0521630010
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0521639980
Content:
This is the first book to investigate how people in the early middle ages used the past: to legitimate the present, to understand current events, and as a source of identity. Each essay examines the mechanisms by which ideas about the past were - sometimes - subtly reshaped for present purposes
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: using the past, interpreting the present, influencing the future; CHAPTER 1 Memory, identity and power in Lombard Italy; CHAPTER 2 Memory and narrative in the cult of early Anglo-Saxon saints; CHAPTER 3 The uses of the Old Testament in early medieval canon law; CHAPTER 4 The transmission of tradition: Gregorian influence and innovation in eighth-century Italian monasticism; CHAPTER 5 The world and its past as Christian allegory in the early Middle Ages
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CHAPTER 6 The Franks as the New Israel? Education for an identity from Pippin to CharlemagneCHAPTER 7 Political ideology in Carolingian historiography; CHAPTER 8 The Annals of Metz and the Merovingian past; CHAPTER 9 The empire as ecclesia: Hrabanus Maurus and biblical historia for rulers; CHAPTER 10 Teutons or Trojans? The Carolingians and the Germanic past; CHAPTER 11 A man for all seasons: Pacificus of Verona and the creation of a local Carolingian past; APPENDIX The Memorial to Pacificus of Verona; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521630016
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Uses of the Past in the Early Middle Ages
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Author information:
Ḥen, Yitsḥaḳ 1963-
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