{"product_id":"phantoms-of-remembrance-9780691026039","title":"Phantoms of Remembrance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMakes 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359099978071,"sku":"9780691026039","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691026039.jpg?v=1754123583","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/phantoms-of-remembrance-9780691026039","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}