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Phantoms of remembrance : memory and oblivion at the end of the first millennium /

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 an...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Geary, Patrick J., 1948-
Corporate Author: American Council of Learned Societies
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1994]
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • Introduction
  • ONE Remembering and Forgetting in the Eleventh Century
  • TWO Men, Women, and Family Memory
  • THREE Archival Memory and the Destruction of the Past
  • FOUR Unrolling Institutional Memories
  • FIVE Political Memory and the Restructuring of the Past
  • SIX Remembering Pannonian Dragons
  • SEVEN Conclusions
  • NOTES
  • SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX