The Destruction and Recovery of Monte Cassino, 529-1964 (Hardcover)

Between the sixth and twentieth centuries, the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino (est. 529) experienced a cycle of atrocities which forever transformed its identity. This book examines how such a tumultuous history has been constructed, remembered, and represented from the Middle Ages to the present day. It uses this singular and pivotal case to analyse the historical process of remembering and its impact on modern representations of the past. Exactly how Monte Cassino is remembered is distinctive and diagnostic. The abbey is recognizable today as a beacon of western civilization, culture, and learning precisely because of its 'destruction tradition' over fourteen centuries. The Destruction and Recovery of Monte Cassino, 529.1964 asks how the abbey's fragmented past has been ideologically, politically, and culturally constituted and preserved; how its experience with destruction and suffering . and recovery and rebirth . has become incorporated into a modern narrative of progress and triumph.

General

Imprint:	Amsterdam University Press
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Italy in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Release date:	May 2021
Authors:	Kriston R. Rennie
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	246
ISBN-13:	978-9463729130
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Social impact of disasters > General Books > History > European history > General
LSN:	9463729135
Barcode:	9789463729130

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