Medieval Concepts of the Past: Ritual, Memory, HistoriographyGerd Althoff, Johannes Fried, Patrick J. Geary, German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.) Medieval Concepts of the Past shows how the history of the Middle Ages is being reshaped by leading medieval historians in Germany and the United States in light of cultural and social-scientific investigations into ritual, language, and memory. These two national traditions of medieval scholarship, which have been largely separated over the course of the twentieth century, are drawing closer together through a common interest in issues of social science and linguistic theory as applied to the representation of the past. This book marks a significant step in the reconvergence of these two historiographical traditions. |
Contents
Introduction Gerd Althoff Johannes Fried and Patrick J Geary | 1 |
Royal SelfRepresentation | 39 |
The Variability of Rituals in the Middle Ages | 71 |
From Demonstrations of Enmity | 89 |
Oblivion Between Orality and Textuality in the Tenth | 111 |
The Concept of Time in the Historiography of | 139 |
Center and Periphery | 193 |
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Medieval Concepts of the Past: Ritual, Memory, Historiography Gerd Althoff,Johannes Fried,Patrick J. Geary No preview available - 2002 |
Medieval Concepts of the Past: Ritual, Memory, Historiography Gerd Althoff,Johannes Fried,Patrick J. Geary No preview available - 2008 |
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