| Phantoms of Remembrance: Memory and Oblivion at the End of the First Millennium Revised Edition Contributor(s): Geary, Patrick J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0691026033 ISBN-13: 9780691026039 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $48.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1996 Annotation: In this book, Patrick Geary makes important new inroads into the widely discussed topic of historical memory, vividly evoking the everyday lives of the eleventh-century people and both their written and 'non-written' ways of preserving the past. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Medieval |
| Dewey: 901 |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.06" W x 9.18" (0.90 lbs) 264 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |