Medieval Concepts of the Past - Ritual, Memory, Historiography

Zusammenfassung This volume shows how medieval history is being reshaped by leading historians in Germany and the United States in the light of cultural and social-scientific investigations into ritual! language and memory. This book marks a significant step in the reconvergence of these two historiographical traditions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Gerd Althoff, Johannes Fried and Patrick J. Geary; 1. Authority and legitimation of royal policy and action: the case of Henry II Stefan Weinfurter; 2. King Henry II of Germany: royal self-representation and historical memory John W. Bernhardt; 3. The variability of rituals in the Middle Ages Gerd Althoff; 4. Rebels and rituals: from demonstrations of enmity to criminal justice Hanna Vollrath; 5. Oblivion between orality and textuality in the tenth century Patrick J. Geary; 6. Text and ritual in ninth-century political culture: Rome, 864 Philippe Buc; 7. The concept of time in the historiography of the eleventh and twelfth centuries Hans-Werner Goetz; 8. Constructing the past by means of the present: historiographical foundations of medieval institutions, dynasties, peoples, and communities Bernd Schneidmüller; 9. Topographies of memory: center and periphery in High Medieval France Amy G. Remensnyder; 10. Challenging the culture of memoria: dead men, oblivion, and the 'faithless widow' in the Middle Ages Bernhard Jussen; 11. Artistic and literary representations of family consciousness John B. Freed; 12. The strange pilgrimage of Odo of Deuil Beate Schuster; 13. The Rhineland massacres of Jews in the First Crusade: memories medieval and modern David Nirenberg; 14. The martyr, the tomb, and the matron: constructing the (Masculine) 'Past' as a female power base Felice Lifshitz.

Product details

• Authors: Gerd Fried Althoff
• Assisted by: Gerd Althoff (Editor), Althoff Gerd (Editor), Johannes Fried (Editor), Fried Johannes (Editor), Patrick J. Geary (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2002
• EAN: 9780521780667
• ISBN: 978-0-521-78066-7
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Publications of the German His; Publications of the German Historical Institute
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; USA, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Historiography, CE period up to c 1500, Historiography, c 1000 CE to c 1500, United States of America, USA, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE