GERMAN

Creative Selection between Emending and Forming Medieval Memory

By Sebastian Scholz (editor); Gerald Schwedler (editor)

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2021
ISBN
9783110757279, 9783110756609
DOI
10.1515/9783110757279
Language
german
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2426531 bytes)
Series
Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies; 96
Pages
212\0
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-07-24 06:18:34

Description

Open AccessKarl Valentin once asked: "How can it be that only as much happens as fits into the newspaper the next day?" He focussed on the problem that information of the past has to be organised, arranged and above all: selected and put into form in order to be perceived as a whole. In this sense, the process of selection must be seen as the fundamental moment – the “Urszene” – of making History. This book shows selection as highly creative act. With the richness of early medieval material it can be demonstrated that creative selection was omnipresent and took place even in unexpected text genres.The book demonstrates the variety how premodern authors dealt with "unimportant", unpleasant or unwanted past. It provides a general overview for regions and text genres in early medieval Europe.

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