Phantoms of Remembrance
by Geary, Patrick J.Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-04-15
Publisher(s): Princeton Univ Pr
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Summary
InPhantoms 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 andnonwrittenways 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.
Author Biography
Patrick J. Geary is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Remembering and Forgetting in the Eleventh Century | p. 23 |
| Men, Women, and Family Memory | p. 48 |
| Archival Memory and the Destruction of the Past | p. 81 |
| Unrolling Institutional Memories | p. 115 |
| Political Memory and the Restructuring of the Past | p. 134 |
| Remembering Pannonian Dragons | p. 158 |
| Conclusions | p. 177 |
| Notes | p. 183 |
| Select Bibliography | p. 219 |
| Index | p. 241 |
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