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Memory and Gender in Medieval Europe, 900-1200 (Paperback)
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Memory and Gender in Medieval Europe, 900-1200 (Paperback)
Series: Medieval Culture and Society
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Remembering the past in the Middle Ages is a subject that is often
perceived as a study of chronicles and annals written by monks in
monasteries. Following in the footsteps of early Christian
historians such as Eusebius and St Augustine, the medieval
chroniclers are thought of as men isolated in their monastic
institutions, writing about the world around them. As the sole
members of their society versed in literacy, they had a monopoly on
the knowledge of the past as preserved in learned histories, which
they themselves updated and continued. A self-perpetuating cycle of
monks writing chronicles, which were read, updated and continued by
the next generation, so the argument goes, remained the vehicle for
a narrative tradition of historical writing for the rest of the
Middle Ages. Elisabeth van Houts challenges this view and
emphasizes the collaboration between men and women in the memorial
tradition of the Middle Ages through both narrative sources
(chronicles, saints' lives and miracles) and material culture
(objects such as jewellery, memorial stones and sacred vessels).
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