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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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.
Imprint | Princeton University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | May 1996 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | May 1996 |
Authors | Patrick J. Geary |
Dimensions | 235 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 264 |
Edition | Revised |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-02603-9 |
Barcode | 9780691026039 |
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LSN | 0-691-02603-3 |