Phantoms of Remembrance

副标题: Memory and Oblivion at the End of the First Millenium

ISBN: 9780691026039

出版社: Princeton University Press

出版年: 1996-04-15

页数: 264

定价: USD 31.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

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.