PHANTOMS OF REMEMBRANCE by Patrick J. Geary ( 9780691026039 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

PHANTOMS OF REMEMBRANCE
MEMORY AND OBLIVION AT THE END OF THE FIRST MILLENNIUM

By:

Patrick J. Geary

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0691026033

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9780691026039

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Publisher:

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

15 April, 1996

Pages:

264

Description:

Makes important inroads into the widely discussed topic of historical memory, evoking the everyday lives of eleventh-century people and both their written and nonwritten ways of preserving the past. This title unearths a range of approaches to preserving the past as it was or formulating the past that an individual or group prefers to imagine.

Synopsis:

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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3 maps. 14 halftones. 4 figs. 3 tables

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Princeton University Press

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