Memory And Commemoration In Medieval Culture

Author : Elma Brenner,Meredith Cohen,Mary Franklin-Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317097723

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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.

Author : Elma Brenner,Meredith Cohen,Mary Franklin-Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 45,7 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.

Author : Caroline M. Barron,Clive Burgess
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Cornerstone laying
ISBN : 1907730044

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Memory and Commemoration in Medieval England by Caroline M. Barron,Clive Burgess Pdf

Author : Piotr Pranke,Jacek Rakoczy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3847115987

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Between East and West by Piotr Pranke,Jacek Rakoczy Pdf

Author : Piotr Pranke
Publisher : V&R unipress
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9783737015981

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Between East and West by Piotr Pranke Pdf

The memory of the living and the dead was part of the functioning of monastic and secular communities, dynasties and aristocratic families. The relationship of debitores and fundatores is key to understanding the “mentality” of the era of the formation of Imperium Christianum. The donations made “pro remedio animae nostre et genitoris nostris” indicate the memorial function of transferring the prayer duties of the power elites (or whole groups and communities) to the clergy and illustrate the belief of medieval people in the importance of intercessory prayer. This volume is a memoir of the Piasts and Boleslaw the Brave on the 1000th anniversary of his coronation. It symbolically closes the study of the millennium of the baptism of Poland (966–1966) and opens the study of the early Middle Ages in Poland and Central Europe.

Author : Gustavs Strenga
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2503591191

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Remembering the Dead by Gustavs Strenga Pdf

Author : Megan Cassidy-Welch,Anne E. Lester
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317504405

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Crusades and Memory by Megan Cassidy-Welch,Anne E. Lester Pdf

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 : Elisabeth Van Houts
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Sarah Greer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198850137

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Commemorating Power in Early Medieval Saxony by Sarah Greer Pdf

Commemorating Power looks at how the past was evoked for political purposes under a new Saxon dynasty, the Ottonians, who came to dominate post-Carolingian Europe after 888 as the rulers of a new empire in Germany and Italy, focusing on two convents of monastic women who played a significant role in Ottonian politics.

Author : Kimm Curran,Janet Burton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781837650293

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Medieval Women Religious, C. 800-C. 1500 by Kimm Curran,Janet Burton Pdf

A multi-disciplinary re-evaluation of the role of women religious in the Middle Ages, both inside and outside the cloister. Medieval women found diverse ways of expressing their religious aspirations: within the cloister as members of monastic and religious orders, within the world as vowesses, or between the two as anchorites. Via a range of disciplinary approaches, from history, archaeology, literature, and the visual arts, the essays in this volume challenge received scholarly narratives and re-examine the roles of women religious: their authority and agency within their own communities and the wider world; their learning and literacy; place in the landscape; and visual culture. Overall, they highlight the impact of women on the world around them, the significance of their presence in communities, and the experiences and legacies they left behind.

Author : Mary J. Carruthers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0521429730

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The Book of Memory by Mary J. Carruthers Pdf

The Book of Memory is a magisterial and beautifully illustrated account of the workings and function of memory in medieval society. Memory was the psychological faculty valued above all others in the period stretching from late antiquity through the Renaissance. The prominence given to memory has profound implications for the contemporary understanding of all creative activity, and the social role of literature and art. Drawing on a range of fascinating examples from Dante, Chaucer, and Aquinas to the symbolism of illuminated manuscripts, this unusually wide-ranging book offers new insights into the medieval world.

Author : Erika Kuijpers,Judith Pollmann,Johannes Mueller,Jasper van der Steen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004261259

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Memory before Modernity by Erika Kuijpers,Judith Pollmann,Johannes Mueller,Jasper van der Steen Pdf

This volume examines the practice of memory in early modern Europe, showing that this was already a multimedia affair with many political uses, and affecting people at all levels of society; many pre-modern memory practices persist until today.

Author : Gerald Schwedler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474273381

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A Cultural History of Memory in the Middle Ages by Gerald Schwedler Pdf

"How has understanding of memory evolved over the past 2,500 years? How has our collective memory been influenced and expressed by politics, culture, philosophy and science? In a work that spans over 2,500 years, these ambitious questions are addressed by 64 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. The volumes situate our understanding of memory within a variety of historical contexts, looking to art and science alike to determine how it has changed in Western society since Antiquity. Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. The six volumes cover: 1. - Antiquity (800 BCE - 500 CE); 2. - Middle Ages (500 - 1450); 3. - Early Modern Age (1450 - 1700) ; 4. - Eighteenth Century (1700 - 1800); 5. - Nineteenth Century (1800 - 1900); 6. - Long Twentieth Century (1900 - 2000+). Themes (and chapter titles) are: Politics; Time and Space; Media and Technology; Science and Education; Philosophy; Religion and History; High Culture and Popular Culture; Society; Remembering and Forgetting. The page extent is approximately 1,728 pp with c. 300 illustrations. Each volume opens with Notes on Contributors, a series preface and an introduction, and concludes with Notes, Bibliography and an Index. The Cultural Histories Series A Cultural History of Memory is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully-searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com)"--

Author : Mary Carruthers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107652255

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The Book of Memory by Mary Carruthers Pdf

Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first. While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new edition devotes much more attention to the role of trained memory in composition, whether of literature, music, architecture, or manuscript books. The new edition will reignite the debate on memory in medieval studies and, like the first, will be essential reading for scholars of history, music, the arts and literature, as well as those interested in issues of orality and literacy (anthropology), in the working and design of memory (both neuropsychology and artificial memory), and in the disciplines of meditation (religion).

Author : Lucie Doležalová
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047441601

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The Making of Memory in the Middle Ages by Lucie Doležalová Pdf

Based on case studies from across Europe including its ‘peripheries,’ this book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the notion of memory in the Middle Ages concentrating on contructing memory both as individual competence and as part of a society’s identity.