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

• Autore: Geary Patrick J. <1948->
• Pubblicazione: Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , 1996; ©1994
• Edizione: 2. print. and 1. paperback print.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 248 p. ) : ill., maps
• Disciplina: 901
• Soggetto topico: History - Philosophy
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Phantoms of remembrance
• ISBN: 1-4008-4354-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248149003316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Princeton paperbacks.