Phantoms of remembrance : memory and oblivion at the end of the first millennium

Geary, Patrick J. 1948- (Author). American Council of Learned Societies. (Added Author).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781400843541
ISBN: 9780691034225
ISBN: 9780691026039
ISBN: 1400843545
ISBN: 0691034222
ISBN: 0691026033
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 248 pages) : illustrations
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Computer data.
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1994]
Copyright: �1994

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:september.21 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-239) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
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Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.