History and Memory in the Carolingian World - Softcover

McKitterick, Rosamond

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521534364 ISBN 13: 9780521534369

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

A remarkable quantity and variety of history was written in Frankish realms of Western Europe in the eighth and ninth centuries. This 2004 work examines the understanding of the past and use of history contained in these books and their role in forming political ideologies and senses of identity within Europe.

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'This volume ... raises central questions about the conscious and implicit functions of Carolingian historical texts, their setting in a broader and more fluid historical narrative, and the evidence for how they circulated. There are important demonstrations of how the manuscripts provide an amplification and a check on what a printed edition can reveal.' Institute of Historical Research

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The writing and reading of history in the early Middle Ages form the key themes of this 2004 book. The primary focus is on the remarkable manifestations of historical writing in relation to historical memory in the Frankish kingdoms of the eighth and ninth centuries. It considers the audiences for history in the Frankish kingdoms, the recording of memory in new genres including narrative histories, cartularies and Libri memoriales, and thus particular perceptions of the Frankish and Christian past. It analyses both original manuscript material and key historical texts from the Carolingian period, a remarkably creative period in the history of European culture. Presentations of the past developed in this period were crucial in forming an historical understanding of the Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian past and, in subsequent centuries, of early medieval Europe. They also played an extraordinarily influential role in the formation of political ideologies and senses of identity within Europe.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521534364
• ISBN 13: 9780521534369
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 354