UID:
almafu_9959899121402883
Format:
1 online resource (264 p.) :
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3 maps. 14 halftones. 4 figs. 3 tables
ISBN:
9781400843541
Content:
In Phantoms of Remembrance, Patrick Geary makes important new inroads into the widely discussed topic of historical memory, vividly evoking the everyday lives of eleventh-century people and both their written and nonwritten ways of preserving the past. Women praying for their dead, monks creating and re-creating their archives, scribes choosing which royal families of the past to applaud and which to forget: it is from such sources that most of our knowledge of the medieval period comes. Throughout richly detailed descriptions of various acts of remembrance--including the naming of children and the recording of visions--the author unearths a wide range of approaches to preserving the past as it was or formulating the past that an individual or group prefers to imagine.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
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ABBREVIATIONS --
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Introduction --
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ONE Remembering and Forgetting in the Eleventh Century --
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TWO Men, Women, and Family Memory --
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THREE Archival Memory and the Destruction of the Past --
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FOUR Unrolling Institutional Memories --
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FIVE Political Memory and the Restructuring of the Past --
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SIX Remembering Pannonian Dragons --
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SEVEN Conclusions --
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NOTES --
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SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY --
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INDEX
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781400843541
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400843541
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400843541
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400843541
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400843541
