Phantoms of remembrance : memory and oblivion at the end of the first millennium /
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 an...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
[1994]
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| Series: | ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1mjqtsx |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 248 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-239) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0691026033 9780691026039 9781400843541 1400843545 0691034222 9780691034225 |