Author : Yitzhak Hen,Matthew Innes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0521639980
The Uses of the Past in the Early Middle Ages by Yitzhak Hen,Matthew Innes Pdf
This is the first book to investigate how people in the early middle ages used the past: to legitimate the present, to understand current events, and as a source of identity. Each essay examines the mechanisms by which ideas about the past were - sometimes - subtly reshaped for present purposes.