Creative Selection between Emending and Forming Medieval Memory

book: Creative Selection between Emending and Forming Medieval Memory

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2022

Creative Selection between Emending and Forming Medieval Memory

Edited by: Sebastian Scholz and Gerald Schwedler

Volume 96 in the series Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110757279

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Karl Valentin once asked: "How can it be that only as much happens as fits into the newspaper the next day?" He focussed on the problem that information of the past has to be organised, arranged and above all: selected and put into form in order to be perceived as a whole. In this sense, the process of selection must be seen as the fundamental moment – the “Urszene” – of making History. This book shows selection as highly creative act. With the richness of early medieval material it can be demonstrated that creative selection was omnipresent and took place even in unexpected text genres.
The book demonstrates the variety how premodern authors dealt with "unimportant", unpleasant or unwanted past. It provides a general overview for regions and text genres in early medieval Europe.

Author / Editor information

Sebastian Scholz, University of Zürich, Switzerland; Gerald Schwedler, University of Kiel, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Vorwort der Herausgeber Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Less is More. Medieval Memory as Process of Creative Selection. An Introduction Sebastian Scholz and Gerald Schwedler Open Access Download PDF	1
Remembering and Forgetting Phantoms of Remembrance: Social Memory and Oblivion in Medieval History after Twenty Years Patrick Geary Open Access Download PDF	15
Phantoms of Identity in Early Medieval Historiography Walter Pohl Open Access Download PDF	27
The Selective Memory of Jonas of Bobbio Ian Wood Open Access Download PDF	41
Gundemar the Ghost, Isidore the Historian: Rethinking Visigothic History from the Whispers of its Literature Michael J. Kelly Open Access Download PDF	61
In ornamento totius palatii? Selektive Wahrnehmung der königlichen Entourage in frühmittelalterlichen Quellen Philippe Depreux Open Access Download PDF	79
Speech is Silver, but Silence is Golden. Creative Selection and Constructed Oblivion in the Work of Gregory of Tours Gerald Schwedler Open Access Download PDF	91
Selection and Presentation of Texts in Early Medieval Canon Law Collections: Approaching the Codex Remensis (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Phill. 1743)* Michael Eber, Stefan Esders, David Ganz and Till Stüber Open Access Download PDF	105
Wahlverwandtschaften im frühen Mittelalter. Von den merowingischen Königskatalogen zu den karolingischen Genealogien Helmut Reimitz Open Access Download PDF	137
Phantoms of Remembrance. Creative Selection in Medieval Religious Life Jörg Sonntag Open Access Download PDF	153
Phantoms of Remembrance und hochmittelalterlicher Mentalitätswandel Manfred Groten Open Access Download PDF	171
Erinnern und Vergessen. Methodische Gedanken und mittelalterliche Perspektiven zu zwei Paradigmen am Schnittpunkt von Memoria und Geschichte Gordon Blennemann Open Access Download PDF	187
Index: Millennium-Studien zur Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n.Chr. Open Access Download PDF	199

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Students and scholars of Ancient and Medieval History
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 204
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 7
- Tables: 2
Keywords: early middle ages; damnatio memoriae; historiography; memory

eBook

Published: November 8, 2021
ISBN: 9783110757279

Hardcover

Published: November 22, 2021
ISBN: 9783110756609