Description
Book SynopsisMakes important inroads into the widely discussed topic of historical memory, evoking the everyday lives of eleventh-century people and both their written and nonwritten ways of preserving the past. This title unearths a range of approaches to preserving the past as it was or formulating the past that an individual or group prefers to imagine.
Trade Review"Moving from general to particular, the author uses three case-studies to depict local patterns of memory... Geary states his thesis with clarity ... [and] throw[s] light into the most elusive recesses of not just 'the past,' but of processes still going on, in and around us, in 1995."--Alexander Murray, The Times Literary Supplement "[A] fascinating, deeply learned, and meticulous study... This thoughtful book ... raises important questions pertinent to all periods."--Virginia Quarterly Review
Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction31Remembering and Forgetting in the Eleventh Century232Men, Women, and Family Memory483Archival Memory and the Destruction of the Past814Unrolling Institutional Memories1155Political Memory and the Restructuring of the Past1346Remembering Pannonian Dragons1587Conclusions177Notes183Select Bibliography219Index241
