The Uses of the Past in the Early Middle Ages

The Uses of the Past in the Early Middle Ages
Title The Uses of the Past in the Early Middle Ages PDF eBook
Author Yitzhak Hen
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 298
Release 2000-06-08
Genre History
ISBN 9780521639989

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This is the first book to investigate how people in the early middle ages used the past: to legitimate the present, to understand current events, and as a source of identity. Each essay examines the mechanisms by which ideas about the past were - sometimes - subtly reshaped for present purposes.

Anger's Past

Anger's Past
Title Anger's Past PDF eBook
Author Barbara H. Rosenwein
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 278
Release 1998
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 9780801483431

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This book considers the role of anger in the social lives and conceptual universes of a varied and significant cross-section of medieval people: monks, saints, kings, lords, and peasants.

Using and Not Using the Past after the Carolingian Empire

Using and Not Using the Past after the Carolingian Empire
Title Using and Not Using the Past after the Carolingian Empire PDF eBook
Author Sarah Greer
Publisher Routledge
Pages 297
Release 2019-10-16
Genre History
ISBN 0429683030

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Using and Not Using the Past after the Carolingian Empire offers a new take on European history from c.900 to c.1050, examining the ‘post-Carolingian’ period in its own right and presenting it as a time of creative experimentation with new forms of authority and legitimacy. In the late eighth century, the Frankish king Charlemagne put together a new empire. Less than a century later, that empire had collapsed. The story of Europe following the end of the Carolingian empire has often been presented as a tragedy: a time of turbulence and disintegration, out of which the new, recognisably medieval kingdoms of Europe emerged. This collection offers a different perspective. Taking a transnational approach, the authors contemplate the new social and political order that emerged in tenth- and eleventh-century Europe and examine how those shaping this new order saw themselves in relation to the past. Each chapter explores how the past was used creatively by actors in the regions of the former Carolingian Empire to search for political, legal and social legitimacy in a turbulent new political order. Advancing the debates on the uses of the past in the early Middle Ages and prompting reconsideration of the narratives that have traditionally dominated modern writing on this period, Using and Not Using the Past after the Carolingian Empire is ideal for students and scholars of tenth- and eleventh-century European history.

The Resources of the Past in Early Medieval Europe

The Resources of the Past in Early Medieval Europe
Title The Resources of the Past in Early Medieval Europe PDF eBook
Author Clemens Gantner
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 371
Release 2015-02-05
Genre History
ISBN 1107091713

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This volume examines the use of the textual resources of the past to shape cultural memory in early medieval Europe.

Ideology in the Middle Ages

Ideology in the Middle Ages
Title Ideology in the Middle Ages PDF eBook
Author Flocel Sabaté
Publisher ARC Humanities Press
Pages 0
Release 2019
Genre Ideology
ISBN 9781641892605

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This highly interdisciplinary volume, with a focus on southern European case studies, sets out to illuminate medieval thought, and to consider how the underlying values of the Middle Ages exerted significant influence in medieval society in the West.

Remembering the Medieval Present: Generative Uses of England’s Pre-Conquest Past, 10th to 15th Centuries

Remembering the Medieval Present: Generative Uses of England’s Pre-Conquest Past, 10th to 15th Centuries
Title Remembering the Medieval Present: Generative Uses of England’s Pre-Conquest Past, 10th to 15th Centuries PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 349
Release 2019-09-16
Genre History
ISBN 9004408339

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This volume of essays focuses on how individuals living in the late tenth through fifteenth centuries engaged with the authorizing culture of the Anglo-Saxons. Drawing from a reservoir of undertreated early English documents and texts, each contributor shows how individual poets, ecclesiasts, legists, and institutions claimed Anglo-Saxon predecessors for rhetorical purposes in response to social, cultural, and linguistic change. Contributors trouble simple definitions of identity and period, exploring how medieval authors looked to earlier periods of history to define social identities and make claims for their present moment based on the political fiction of an imagined community of a single, distinct nation unified in identity by descent and religion. Contributors are Cynthia Turner Camp, Irina Dumitrescu, Jay Paul Gates, Erin Michelle Goeres, Mary Kate Hurley, Maren Clegg Hyer, Nicole Marafioti, Brian O’Camb, Kathleen Smith, Carla María Thomas, Larissa Tracy, and Eric Weiskott. See inside the book.

The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages

The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages
Title The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages PDF eBook
Author Walter Ullmann
Publisher JHU Press
Pages 154
Release 2019-12-01
Genre History
ISBN 1421433982

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Originally published in 1966. The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages, based on three guest lectures given at Johns Hopkins University in 1965, explores the place of the individual in medieval European society. Looking at legal sources and political ideology of the era, Ullmann concludes that, for most of the Middle Ages, the individual was defined as a subject rather than a citizen, but the modern concept of citizenship gradually supplanted the subject model from the late Middle Ages onward. Ullmann lays out the theological basis of the political theory that cast the medieval individual as an inferior, abstract subject. The individual citizen who emerged during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, by contrast, was an autonomous participant in affairs of state. Several intellectual trends made this humanistic conception of the individual possible, among them the rehabilitation of vernacular writing during the thirteenth century and the growing interest in nature, natural philosophy, and natural law. However, Ullmann points to feudalism as the single most important medieval institution that laid the groundwork for the emergence of the modern citizen.