Phantoms of Remembrance
Author | : Patrick J. Geary |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2021-07-13 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781400843541 |
ISBN-13 | : 1400843545 |
Rating | : 4/5 (545 Downloads) |
Download or read book Phantoms of Remembrance written by Patrick J. Geary and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 re-creating 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. Throughout 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.