Ancient And Medieval Memories
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Author | : Janet Coleman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 670 |
Release | : 1992-01-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521411440 |
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This book is an analysis of thinking, remembering and reminiscing according to ancient authors, and their medieval readers. The author argues that behind the various medieval methods in interpreting texts of the past lie two apparently incompatible theories of human knowledge and remembering, as well as two differing attitudes to matter and intellect. The book comprises a series of studies which take ancient texts as evidence of the past, and show how medieval readers and writers understood them. The studies confirm that medieval and renaissance interpretations and uses of the past differ greatly from modern interpretation and yet betray many startling continuities between modern and ancient and medieval theories.
Author | : Mary Carruthers |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 875 |
Release | : 2008-05-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107652251 |
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Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first. While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new edition devotes much more attention to the role of trained memory in composition, whether of literature, music, architecture, or manuscript books. The new edition will reignite the debate on memory in medieval studies and, like the first, will be essential reading for scholars of history, music, the arts and literature, as well as those interested in issues of orality and literacy (anthropology), in the working and design of memory (both neuropsychology and artificial memory), and in the disciplines of meditation (religion).
Author | : Lucie Doležalová |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 2009-11-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9047441605 |
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Based on case studies from across Europe including its ‘peripheries,’ this book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the notion of memory in the Middle Ages concentrating on contructing memory both as individual competence and as part of a society’s identity.
Author | : Mary Carruthers |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9780812218817 |
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"A volume that will interest a wide spectrum of readers."—Patrick Geary, University of California, Los Angeles
Author | : Dr Elma Brenner |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 2013-04-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1409463435 |
Download Memory and Commemoration in Medieval Culture Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In medieval society and culture, memory occupied a unique position. It was central to intellectual life and the medieval understanding of the human mind. Commemoration of the dead was also a fundamental Christian activity. Above all, the past - and the memory of it - occupied a central position in medieval thinking, from ideas concerning the family unit to those shaping political institutions. Focusing on France but incorporating studies from further afield, this collection of essays marks an important new contribution to the study of medieval memory and commemoration. Arranged thematically, each part highlights how memory cannot be studied in isolation, but instead intersects with many other areas of medieval scholarship, including art history, historiography, intellectual history, and the study of religious culture. Key themes in the study of memory are explored, such as collective memory, the links between memory and identity, the fallibility of memory, and the linking of memory to the future, as an anticipation of what is to come.
Author | : Gerd Althoff |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2002-01-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521780667 |
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An analysis of medieval ritual, history, and memory in Germany and the United States.
Author | : Nicoletta Bruno |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2022-02-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110742098 |
Download Fragmented Memory Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Chance, in addition to the unavoidable ambiguity caused by time, is one of the main guilty parties in the transmission of ancient texts – or lack thereof. However, the same cannot be said for what concerns the mechanisms of selection and loss of historical and literary memory, where the voluntary awareness of obscuring is often part of a precise aim, thus leading the cultural memory of a literate society to become fragmented. The present volume explores the devices and criteria of selection and loss in Ancient and Medieval texts and the subsequent fragmentation of such literature, but it also addresses the questions of the damnatio memoriae, of literary strategies such as reticence and omission, as well as of known texts deemed lost but re-found thanks to state-of-the-art methods in digitization. The many and diverse nuances of the concepts of omission, selection, and loss throughout Ancient and Medieval literature and history are illustrated through a number of case studies in the four sections of this volume, each examining a different facet of the topic: ‘Mechanisms and criteria of textual loss and selection’, ‘Lost texts re-discovered’, ‘Voluntary omissions and desire for oblivion’, and ‘Re-working the known’.
Author | : Antoine Borrut |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 2010-06-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004190988 |
Download Umayyad Legacies Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Building on new interest in the study of memory and Islamic historiography and including interdisciplinary perspectives from Arabic literature, art, and archaeology, the papers in this book consider the achievements of the Umayyad dynasty in the Near East and Islamic Spain, and highlight the shaping of our knowledge of the Umayyad past.
Author | : Jacob A. Latham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2016-08-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316692426 |
Download Performance, Memory, and Processions in Ancient Rome Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The pompa circensis, the procession which preceded the chariot races in the arena, was both a prominent political pageant and a hallowed religious ritual. Traversing a landscape of memory, the procession wove together spaces and institutions, monuments and performers, gods and humans into an image of the city, whose contours shifted as Rome changed. In the late Republic, the parade produced an image of Rome as the senate and the people with their gods - a deeply traditional symbol of the city which was transformed during the empire when an imperial image was built on top of the republican one. In late antiquity, the procession fashioned a multiplicity of Romes: imperial, traditional, and Christian. In this book, Jacob A. Latham explores the webs of symbolic meanings in the play between performance and itinerary, tracing the transformations of the circus procession from the late Republic to late antiquity.
Author | : Jan Assmann |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2011-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521763819 |
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Pt. 1. The theoretical basis -- Memory culture -- Written culture -- Cultural identity and political imagination -- pt. 2. Case studies -- Egypt -- Israel and the invention of religion -- The birth of history from the spirit of the law -- Greece and disciplined thinking -- Cultural memory : a summary.