Medieval Memories

Author : Elisabeth Van-Houts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317878834

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Medieval Memories by Elisabeth Van-Houts Pdf

Who, exactly, was responsible for the preservation of knowledge about the past? How did people preserve their recollections and pass them on to the next generation? Did they write them down or did they hand then on orally? The book is concerned with the memories of medieval people. In the Middle Ages, as now, men and women collected stories about the past and handed them down to posterity. Many memories centre in the aristocratic family or lineage while others are focussed on institutions such as monasteries or nunneries. The family and monastic contexts clearly illustrate that remembrance of the past was a task for men and women and that each sex had a specific gendered role. Memory also involves selection of what should and should not be remembered and its corollary, amnesia, therefore, is discussed. Anchored in the present, memory casts a shadow on the future and thus prophecies form an important component of the cult of remembrance. For the first time in Medieval Memories, tombstones, medieval encyclopaedias and legal testimonies figure alongside moral guidebooks, miracle stories and chronicles as material for the gendered perceptions of the medieval past.

Author : Janet Coleman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521411448

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Ancient and Medieval Memories by Janet Coleman Pdf

This book is an analysis of thinking, remembering and reminiscing according to ancient authors, and their medieval readers. The author argues that behind the various medieval methods in interpreting texts of the past lie two apparently incompatible theories of human knowledge and remembering, as well as two differing attitudes to matter and intellect. The book comprises a series of studies which take ancient texts as evidence of the past, and show how medieval readers and writers understood them. The studies confirm that medieval and renaissance interpretations and uses of the past differ greatly from modern interpretation and yet betray many startling continuities between modern and ancient and medieval theories.

Author : Elisabeth Van-Houts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317878841

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Medieval Memories by Elisabeth Van-Houts Pdf

Who, exactly, was responsible for the preservation of knowledge about the past? How did people preserve their recollections and pass them on to the next generation? Did they write them down or did they hand then on orally? The book is concerned with the memories of medieval people. In the Middle Ages, as now, men and women collected stories about the past and handed them down to posterity. Many memories centre in the aristocratic family or lineage while others are focussed on institutions such as monasteries or nunneries. The family and monastic contexts clearly illustrate that remembrance of the past was a task for men and women and that each sex had a specific gendered role. Memory also involves selection of what should and should not be remembered and its corollary, amnesia, therefore, is discussed. Anchored in the present, memory casts a shadow on the future and thus prophecies form an important component of the cult of remembrance. For the first time in Medieval Memories, tombstones, medieval encyclopaedias and legal testimonies figure alongside moral guidebooks, miracle stories and chronicles as material for the gendered perceptions of the medieval past.

Author : Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:951779160

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Medieval Memories by Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts Pdf

Author : Jennifer Summit
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226781723

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Memory's Library by Jennifer Summit Pdf

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 : Mary Carruthers,Jan M. Ziolkowski
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0812218817

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The Medieval Craft of Memory by Mary Carruthers,Jan M. Ziolkowski Pdf

"A volume that will interest a wide spectrum of readers."—Patrick Geary, University of California, Los Angeles

Author : Tim William Machan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526145359

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Northern Memories and the English Middle Ages by Tim William Machan Pdf

This book argues that the image of medieval England created by writers of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries was deeply informed by medieval and modern Scandinavia. Protestant and monarchical, the Scandinavian region became an image of Britain's noble past and an affirmation of its current global status.

Author : Anna Maria Busse Berger
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520314276

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Medieval Music and the Art of Memory by Anna Maria Busse Berger Pdf

Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award and Society of Music Theory's Wallace Berry Award This bold challenge to conventional notions about medieval music disputes the assumption of pure literacy and replaces it with a more complex picture of a world in which literacy and orality interacted. Asking such fundamental questions as how singers managed to memorize such an enormous amount of music and how music composed in the mind rather than in writing affected musical style, Anna Maria Busse Berger explores the impact of the art of memory on the composition and transmission of medieval music. Her fresh, innovative study shows that although writing allowed composers to work out pieces in the mind, it did not make memorization redundant but allowed for new ways to commit material to memory. Since some of the polyphonic music from the twelfth century and later was written down, scholars have long assumed that it was all composed and transmitted in written form. Our understanding of medieval music has been profoundly shaped by German philologists from the beginning of the last century who approached medieval music as if it were no different from music of the nineteenth century. But Medieval Music and the Art of Memory deftly demonstrates that the fact that a piece was written down does not necessarily mean that it was conceived and transmitted in writing. Busse Berger's new model, one that emphasizes the interplay of literate and oral composition and transmission, deepens and enriches current understandings of medieval music and opens the field for fresh interpretations.

Author : Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802082777

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Memory and Gender in Medieval Europe, 900-1200 by Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts Pdf

Elisabeth van Houts argues that in the Middle Ages, as now, the knowledge of the past was shaped by men as well as women. Men may have dominated the pages of literature but many of the stories they wrote were told to them by women.

Author : Gerd Althoff,Johannes Fried,Patrick J. Geary,German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0521780667

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Medieval Concepts of the Past by Gerd Althoff,Johannes Fried,Patrick J. Geary,German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.) Pdf

An analysis of medieval ritual, history, and memory in Germany and the United States.

Author : Dr Elma Brenner,Dr Mary Franklin-Brown,Dr Meredith Cohen
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409463436

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Memory and Commemoration in Medieval Culture by Dr Elma Brenner,Dr Mary Franklin-Brown,Dr Meredith Cohen Pdf

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 : Flocel Sabaté
Publisher : ARC Humanities Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Ideology
ISBN : 1641892609

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Ideology in the Middle Ages by Flocel Sabaté Pdf

This highly interdisciplinary volume, with a focus on southern European case studies, sets out to illuminate medieval thought, and to consider how the underlying values of the Middle Ages exerted significant influence in medieval society in the West.

Author : Elisabeth Van Houts
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349275151

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Memory and Gender in Medieval Europe, 900-1200 by Elisabeth Van Houts Pdf

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 : Antoine Borrut,Paul M. Cobb
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004190986

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Umayyad Legacies by Antoine Borrut,Paul M. Cobb Pdf

Building on new interest in the study of memory and Islamic historiography and including interdisciplinary perspectives from Arabic literature, art, and archaeology, the papers in this book consider the achievements of the Umayyad dynasty in the Near East and Islamic Spain, and highlight the shaping of our knowledge of the Umayyad past.

Author : Elma Brenner,Meredith Cohen,Mary Franklin-Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317097716

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Memory and Commemoration in Medieval Culture by Elma Brenner,Meredith Cohen,Mary Franklin-Brown Pdf

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.