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Medieval Memories - Men, Women and the Past, 700-1300 (Hardcover)
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Medieval Memories - Men, Women and the Past, 700-1300 (Hardcover)
Series: Women And Men In History
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Who, exactly, was responsible for the preservation of knowledge
about the past? How did people preserve their recollections and
pass them on to the next generation? Did they write them down or
did they hand then on orally? The book is concerned with the
memories of medieval people. In the Middle Ages, as now, men and
women collected stories about the past and handed them down to
posterity. Many memories centre in the aristocratic family or
lineage while others are focussed on institutions such as
monasteries or nunneries. The family and monastic contexts clearly
illustrate that remembrance of the past was a task for men and
women and that each sex had a specific gendered role. Memory also
involves selection of what should and should not be remembered and
its corollary, amnesia, therefore, is discussed. Anchored in the
present, memory casts a shadow on the future and thus prophecies
form an important component of the cult of remembrance. For the
first time in Medieval Memories, tombstones, medieval
encyclopaedias and legal testimonies figure alongside moral
guidebooks, miracle stories and chronicles as material for the
gendered perceptions of the medieval past.
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