1994, ISBN: 0691034222

[SC: 35.99], [PU: Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994], Jacket, Geary, Patrick J., 1948-. Phantoms of remembrance: memory and oblivion at the end of the first millennium. Pr… Mehr…

[SC: 35.99], [PU: Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994], Jacket, Geary, Patrick J., 1948-. Phantoms of remembrance: memory and oblivion at the end of the first millennium. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994, xiv, 248pp., very good dust-jacket, very good black cloth. Dust-jacket design by Donald Hatch. 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 recreating 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. Through 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. By focusing on a turning point in medieval history, one in which an effort was made to make a cultural break with the previous centuries, Geary offers a dramatic example of specific mental and social structures that filtered the memories communicated by social elites and ordinary individuals alike. The author focuses on the former Carolingian empire to compare how people from Provence to Bavaria recalled their familial, institutional, and regional pasts. In examining wntten accounts and documents, he considers attitudes toward a wide,range of topics - from gender and fashion to politics and religious practices - and shows how these attitudes reveal the social transformtions taking place in the eleventh century as well as the ways in which people had already begun to think about the past. Throughout his investigation, the author maintains that what matters is not so much the content of what is remembered but rather the ways in which memories are structured and represented, and ultimately what is forgotten along the way. Patrick J. Geary is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages (Princeton). Jacket illustration: Dragons in the Bamberg apocalypse (fol. 3 Ov). Courtesy Staatsbibliothek Bamberg. 9780691034225 ISBN 0691034222<

1994, ISBN: 0691034222

[SC: 36.32], [PU: Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994], Jacket, Geary, Patrick J., 1948-. Phantoms of remembrance: memory and oblivion at the end of the first millennium. Pr… Mehr…

[SC: 36.32], [PU: Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994], Jacket, Geary, Patrick J., 1948-. Phantoms of remembrance: memory and oblivion at the end of the first millennium. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994, xiv, 248pp., very good dust-jacket, very good black cloth. Dust-jacket design by Donald Hatch. 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 recreating 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. Through 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. By focusing on a turning point in medieval history, one in which an effort was made to make a cultural break with the previous centuries, Geary offers a dramatic example of specific mental and social structures that filtered the memories communicated by social elites and ordinary individuals alike. The author focuses on the former Carolingian empire to compare how people from Provence to Bavaria recalled their familial, institutional, and regional pasts. In examining wntten accounts and documents, he considers attitudes toward a wide,range of topics - from gender and fashion to politics and religious practices - and shows how these attitudes reveal the social transformtions taking place in the eleventh century as well as the ways in which people had already begun to think about the past. Throughout his investigation, the author maintains that what matters is not so much the content of what is remembered but rather the ways in which memories are structured and represented, and ultimately what is forgotten along the way. Patrick J. Geary is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages (Princeton). Jacket illustration: Dragons in the Bamberg apocalypse (fol. 3 Ov). Courtesy Staatsbibliothek Bamberg. 9780691034225 ISBN 0691034222<