The Uses of the Past in the Early Middle Ages
Author | : Yitzhak Hen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2000-06-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521639989 |
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This is the first book to investigate how people in the early middle ages used the past: to legitimate the present, to understand current events, and as a source of identity. Each essay examines the mechanisms by which ideas about the past were - sometimes - subtly reshaped for present purposes.