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 |
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
Title | Anger's Past PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara H. Rosenwein |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9780801483431 |
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.
Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages
Title | Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara H. Rosenwein |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780801444784 |
This highly original book is both a study of emotional discourse in the Early Middle Ages and a contribution to the debates among historians and social scientists about the nature of human emotions.
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 |
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
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 |
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
Title | Ideology in the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Flocel Sabaté |
Publisher | ARC Humanities Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Ideology |
ISBN | 9781641892605 |
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.
The Uses of the Middle Ages in Modern European States
Title | The Uses of the Middle Ages in Modern European States PDF eBook |
Author | R. Evans |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010-12-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781137428110 |
An assessment of the role of the Middle Ages in national historiography and in modern conceptions of national identity, looking at relatively young nations, and regions which claim national traditions but were slow to achieve, or regain, separate statehood. Examples range from Ireland and Iceland through Austria and Italy to Finland and Greece.