Memory And Commemoration In Medieval Culture
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Author |
: Elma Brenner |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 375 |
Release |
: 2016-04-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317097723 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317097726 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Memory and Commemoration in Medieval Culture by : Elma Brenner
In medieval society and culture, memory occupied a unique position. It was central to intellectual life and the medieval understanding of the human mind. Commemoration of the dead was also a fundamental Christian activity. Above all, the past - and the memory of it - occupied a central position in medieval thinking, from ideas concerning the family unit to those shaping political institutions. Focusing on France but incorporating studies from further afield, this collection of essays marks an important new contribution to the study of medieval memory and commemoration. Arranged thematically, each part highlights how memory cannot be studied in isolation, but instead intersects with many other areas of medieval scholarship, including art history, historiography, intellectual history, and the study of religious culture. Key themes in the study of memory are explored, such as collective memory, the links between memory and identity, the fallibility of memory, and the linking of memory to the future, as an anticipation of what is to come.
Author |
: Elma Brenner |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 403 |
Release |
: 2016-04-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317097716 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317097718 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Memory and Commemoration in Medieval Culture by : Elma Brenner
In medieval society and culture, memory occupied a unique position. It was central to intellectual life and the medieval understanding of the human mind. Commemoration of the dead was also a fundamental Christian activity. Above all, the past - and the memory of it - occupied a central position in medieval thinking, from ideas concerning the family unit to those shaping political institutions. Focusing on France but incorporating studies from further afield, this collection of essays marks an important new contribution to the study of medieval memory and commemoration. Arranged thematically, each part highlights how memory cannot be studied in isolation, but instead intersects with many other areas of medieval scholarship, including art history, historiography, intellectual history, and the study of religious culture. Key themes in the study of memory are explored, such as collective memory, the links between memory and identity, the fallibility of memory, and the linking of memory to the future, as an anticipation of what is to come.
Author |
: Elisabeth Van Houts |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 204 |
Release |
: 2016-07-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781349275151 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1349275158 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Memory and Gender in Medieval Europe, 900-1200 by : Elisabeth Van Houts
Remembering the past in the Middle Ages is a subject that is usually perceived as a study of chronicles and annals written by monks in monasteries. Following in the footsteps of early Christian historians such as Eusebius and St Augustine, the medieval chroniclers are thought of as men isolated in their monastic institutions, writing about the world around them. As the sole members of their society versed in literacy, they had a monopoly on the knowledge of the past as preserved in learned histories, which they themselves updated and continued. A self-perpetuating cycle of monks writing chronicles, which were read, updated and continued by the next generation, so the argument goes, remained the vehicle for a narrative tradition of historical writing for the rest of the Middle Ages. Elisabeth van Houts forcefully challenges this view and emphasises the collaboration between men and women in the memorial tradition of the Middle Ages through both narrative sources (chronicles, saints' lives and miracles) and material culture (objects such as jewellery, memorial stones and sacred vessels). Men may have dominated the pages of literature from the period, but they would not have had half the stories to write about if women had not told them: thus the remembrance of the past was a human experience shared equally between men and women.
Author |
: Megan Cassidy-Welch |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2017-10-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317504405 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317504402 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Crusades and Memory by : Megan Cassidy-Welch
Crusading was a religious movement involving papal authorization, the incentive of remission of sins, pious motivation on behalf of the individual, and the justification of holy war. Much recent historiography in this area has focused on resolving the questions of what a crusade was, and why people went on them. But crusading became a cultural and social phenomenon that changed across time and geographical space. In turn, crusading was shaped by the ways specific crusades and their participants were remembered in specific historical contexts. Moreover, crusade memory had profound effects on the cultivation of family lineage, kinship ties, national and regional identity, and religious orthodoxy. Integrating memory into crusades scholarship thus offers new ways of exploring the aftermath of war, the construction of cultural and social memory, the role of women and families in this process, and the crusading movement itself. This book explores memory as a methodological means of understanding the crusades. It engages with theories of communicative memory, social and cultural memory, war commemoration, and historical processes of remembering. Contributions explore the variety of cultural forms used in cultivating crusade memory. Material, visual, liturgical and textual objects are all reflective of crusade culture and the process of crafting its memory, and the analysis of such sources is of particular interest. This publication furthers new trends in crusade scholarship which understand the crusades as a broad religious movement that called upon and developed within a wider cultural framework than previously acknowledged. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Medieval History.
Author |
: Stefan Goebel |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 259 |
Release |
: 2007-01-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521854153 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521854156 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Great War and Medieval Memory by : Stefan Goebel
A comparative study of the cultural impact of the Great War on British and German societies. Taking medievalism as a mode of public commemorations as its focus, this book unravels the British and German search for historical continuity and meaning in the shadow of an unprecedented human catastrophe.
Author |
: P.J. Rhodes |
Publisher |
: OUP/British Academy |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2012-05-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0197264662 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780197264669 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cultures of Commemoration by : P.J. Rhodes
This volume presents studies of military commemorative practices in Western culture, from 5th-century BC Greece, through two World Wars, to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This new comparative approach reveals that the distant past has had a lasting influence on commemorative practice in modern times.
Author |
: Jennifer Summit |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2008-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226781723 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226781720 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Memory's Library by : Jennifer Summit
In Jennifer Summit’s account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey’s famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, Memory’s Library revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England. Summit argues that the medieval sources that survive in English collections are the product of a Reformation and post-Reformation struggle to redefine the past by redefining the cultural place, function, and identity of libraries. By establishing the intellectual dynamism of English libraries during this crucial period of their development, Memory’s Library demonstrates how much current discussions about the future of libraries can gain by reexamining their past.
Author |
: Els Rose |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 351 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004171718 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004171711 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ritual Memory by : Els Rose
"Ritual Memory" brings together two areas of study which have hitherto rarely been studied in comparison: liturgy and the apocryphal Acts of the Apostles. The book gives an analysis of the liturgical celebration of the apostles in the medieval West and examines the incorporation of the apocrypha in practices of ritual commemoration. It reveals the role that liturgy played in the transmission of the apocryphal Acts and visualises the way these narrative traditions developed and changed through their incorporation into a ritual context. The result is a dynamic picture of the ritual reception of the extra-canonical Acts in the Latin Middle Ages, where the apocryphal legends about the apostolic past were approached as memorable traditions on the origins of Christianity.
Author |
: Josef W. Meri |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 346 |
Release |
: 2002-11-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191554735 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191554731 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cult of Saints among Muslims and Jews in Medieval Syria by : Josef W. Meri
This accessible study is the first critical investigation of the cult of saints among Muslims and Jews in medieval Syria and the Near East. Through case studies of saints and their devotees, discussion of the architecture of monuments, examination of devotional objects, and analysis of ideas of 'holiness', Meri depicts the practices of living religion and explores the common heritage of all three monotheistic faiths. Critical readings of a wide range of contemporary sources - travel writing, geographical works, pilgrimage guides, legal writings, historical sources, hagiography, and biography - reveal a vibrant religious culture in which the veneration of saints and pilgrimage to tombs and shrines were fundamental.
Author |
: John S. Lee |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages |
: 219 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781783273348 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1783273348 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Commemoration in Medieval Cambridge by : John S. Lee
An examination of how academic colleges commemorated their patrons in a rich variety of ways.