Creative Selection between Emending and Forming Medieval Memory

Creative Selection between Emending and Forming Medieval Memory
Title Creative Selection between Emending and Forming Medieval Memory PDF eBook
Author Sebastian Scholz
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 284
Release 2021-11-08
Genre History
ISBN 3110757303

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Karl Valentin once asked: "How can it be that only as much happens as fits into the newspaper the next day?" He focussed on the problem that information of the past has to be organised, arranged and above all: selected and put into form in order to be perceived as a whole. In this sense, the process of selection must be seen as the fundamental moment – the “Urszene” – of making History. This book shows selection as highly creative act. With the richness of early medieval material it can be demonstrated that creative selection was omnipresent and took place even in unexpected text genres. The book demonstrates the variety how premodern authors dealt with "unimportant", unpleasant or unwanted past. It provides a general overview for regions and text genres in early medieval Europe.

Between Memory and Power

Between Memory and Power
Title Between Memory and Power PDF eBook
Author Antoine Borrut
Publisher BRILL
Pages 543
Release 2023-07-17
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004466320

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Between Memory and Power intends to demonstrate that a robust culture of historical writing existed in 2nd/8th century Syria, and to offer new methodological approaches to access this now lost history, torn between memory and oblivion. By studying the making of Umayyad heroes or Abbasid origins-myths, this book aims to reveal the successive meanings granted to Syrian history, and to identify the various layers of historical writing and rewriting during the first centuries of Islam. Taken together, these elements make possible a history of meanings of the very space of Syria, articulated around power and its expression, which grants a clear coherence to the period, extending well beyond the dynastic caesura of 132/750.

Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome

Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome
Title Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome PDF eBook
Author Maya Maskarinec
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 337
Release 2025-03-04
Genre History
ISBN 1512827029

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How elite Roman families used genealogy, architecture, and the urban fabric to appropriate the city’s saints for their own Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome explores the creative efforts of some of Rome’s most prominent noble families to weave themselves into Rome’s Christian past. Maya Maskarinec shows how, from late antiquity to early modernity, elite Roman families used genealogy, architecture, and the urban fabric to appropriate the city’s saints for their own, eventually claiming them as ancestors. Over the course of the Middle Ages, there developed a pronounced sense that churches and their saints belonged to specific regions, neighborhoods, and even families. These associations, coupled with a resurgent interest in Rome’s Christian antiquity as well as in noble lineages, enabled Roman families to “domesticate” the city’s saints and dominate the urban landscape and its politics into the early modern era. These families cultivated saintly genealogies and saintly topologies (exploiting, for example, the increasingly prolific identification of churches as the former residences of early Christian and late antique saints), cementing presumed connections between place, descent, and moral worth. Drawing from sources spanning the fourth to the late sixteenth century, Maskarinec brings into conversation saints’ lives, documentary evidence, family genealogies, monumental and domestic architecture, and medieval and early modern guidebooks, sources not often studied together. Bridging the divide between secular and sacred histories of Rome, Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome repositions these materials within a new story, of how Romans made the city’s classical and Christian past their own and thereby empowered and immortalized their families.

Medieval Cologne

Medieval Cologne
Title Medieval Cologne PDF eBook
Author Joseph P. Huffman
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 670
Release 2024-11-18
Genre History
ISBN 3111571149

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In Anglophone literature, historical questions about urban, socio-economic, political, religious, and cultural development have often been answered using Anglo-French, Anglo-Low Countries, and Anglo-Italian paradigms and sources. Medieval Germany has been largely overlooked, seen as a peripheral and irrelevant anomaly. Conversely, scholars from the German Rhineland have mostly remained within the traditions of civic public history and Landesgeschichte. As a result, they rarely engage with the historical questions raised in wider European discourses. This volume challenges these historiographical propensities by offering a fresh perspective on medieval urban Germany. It aims to integrate Cologne and the Rhineland more accurately and equitably into the wider histories of medieval Europe. The book engages with historical questions of wider relevance across both German and European medieval histories. It invites all scholars and students of medieval Europe to utilize Cologne as a key source for their research and writing.

Isidore of Seville and the Liber Iudiciorum

Isidore of Seville and the Liber Iudiciorum
Title Isidore of Seville and the Liber Iudiciorum PDF eBook
Author Michael J. Kelly
Publisher BRILL
Pages 257
Release 2021-03-15
Genre History
ISBN 9004450017

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In Isidore of Seville and the “Liber Iudiciorum,” the author re-interprets the meaning and “function” of the seventh-century Visigothic law-code, the Liber Iudiciorum within the context of the cooperative competition of history-writing between nodes of power in Seville and Toledo.

Latin Palaeography

Latin Palaeography
Title Latin Palaeography PDF eBook
Author Bernhard Bischoff
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 360
Release 1990-04-12
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780521367264

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This work, by the greatest living authority on medieval palaeography, offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date account in any language of the history of Latin script. It also contains a detailed account of the role of the book in cultural history from antiquity to the Renaissance, which outlines the history of book illumination. Designed as a textbook, it contains a full and updated bibliography. Because the volume sets the development of Latin script in its cultural context, it also provides an unrivalled introduction to the nature of medieval Latin culture. It will be used extensively in the teaching of latin palaeography, and is unlikely to be superseded.

Isidore of Seville and the Liber Iudiciorum

Isidore of Seville and the Liber Iudiciorum
Title Isidore of Seville and the Liber Iudiciorum PDF eBook
Author Michael J. Kelly
Publisher Medieval and Early Modern Iber
Pages 260
Release 2021
Genre History
ISBN 9789004343986

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"Isidore of Seville and the "Liber Iudiciorum" establishes a novel framework for re-interpreting the Liber Iudiciorum (LI), the law-code issued in Toledo by the Visigothic king Recceswinth (649/653-672) in 654. The LI was a manifestation of a vibrant dialectical situation, particularly between two networks of authority, Isidore-Seville and Toledo-Agali, a defining characteristic of the discourse coloring the fabric of writing in Hispania, c. 600-660. To more fully imagine the meaning, significance and purposes of the LI, this book elicits this cooperative competition through a series of four case-studies on writing in the period. In addition to offering an alternative historiography for the LI, this book expands the corpus of "Visigothic Literature" and introduces what the author refers to as "Gothstalgie.""--