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Forgeries and Historical Writing in England, France, and Flanders, 900-1200 (Hardcover)
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Forgeries and Historical Writing in England, France, and Flanders, 900-1200 (Hardcover)
Series: Medieval Documentary Cultures
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A close analysis of forgeries and historical writings at Saint
Peter's, Ghent; Saint-Denis near Paris; and Christ Church,
Canterbury, offering valuable access to why medieval people often
rewrote their pasts. What modern scholars call "forgeries" (be they
texts, seals, coins, or relics) flourished in the central Middle
Ages. Although lying was considered wrong throughout the period,
such condemnation apparently did not extend to forgeries. Rewriting
documents was especially common among monks, who exploited their
mastery of writing to reshape their records. Monastic scribes
frequently rewrote their archives, using charters, letters, and
narratives, to create new usable pasts for claiming lands and
privileges in their present or future. Such imagined histories
could also be deployed to "reform" their community or reshape its
relationship with lay and ecclesiastical authorities. Although
these creative rewritings were forgeries, they still can be
valuable evidence of medieval mentalities. While forgeries cannot
easily be used to reconstruct what did happen, forgeries embedded
in historical narratives show what their composers believed should
have happened and thus they offer valuable access to why medieval
people rewrote their pasts. This book offers close analysis of
three monastic archives over the long eleventh century: Saint
Peter's, Ghent; Saint-Denis near Paris; and Christ Church,
Canterbury. These foci provide the basis for contextualizing key
shifts in documentary culture in the twelfth century across Europe.
Overall, the book argues that connections between monastic
forgeries and historical writing in the tenth through twelfth
centuries reveal attempts to reshape reality. Both sought to
rewrite the past and thereby promote monks' interests in their
present or future.
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