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Phantoms of Remembrance: Memory and Oblivion at the End of the First Millenium

By Patrick J. Geary

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1996
ISBN
0691026033, 9780691026039
Open Library ID
OL7756731M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12460986 bytes)
Pages
264\264
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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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