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Record Nr.

UNISA996248149003316

Autore

Geary Patrick J. <1948->

Titolo

Phantoms of remembrance : memory and oblivion at the end of the first millennium / / Patrick J. Geary

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , 1996

©1994

ISBN

1-4008-4354-5

Edizione

[2. print. and 1. paperback print.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 248 p. ) : ill., maps ;

Collana

Princeton paperbacks

Disciplina

901

Soggetti

History - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Literaturverz. S. [219] - 239

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction -- ONE Remembering and Forgetting in the Eleventh Century -- TWO Men, Women, and Family Memory -- THREE Archival Memory and the Destruction of the Past -- FOUR Unrolling Institutional Memories -- FIVE Political Memory and the Restructuring of the Past -- SIX Remembering Pannonian Dragons -- SEVEN Conclusions -- NOTES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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.