Medieval Memories: Men, Women and the Past, 700-1300

ISBN-13: 9780582369023 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 200 str.

Van-Houts, Elisabeth

Opis

This work is concerned with the memories of medieval people. In the Middle Ages, as now, men and women collected stories about the past and handed them down to posterity. This text explores who was responsible for the preservation of knowledge and how recollections were preserved and passed on.

Spis treści

List of Tables.  List of Abbreviations.  List of Contributors. Acknowledgements.  Introduction: Medieval Memories.  1. Keeping It in The Family: Women And Aristocratic Memory, 700-1200.  2. Gender and Memory in Medieval Italy.  3. Men, Women and Miracles in Normandy, 1050-1150.  4. Sworn Testimony and Memory of the Past in Brittany, c.1100-1250.  5. Memories of the Marvelous in the Anglo-Norman Realm.  6. Gendered Memories from Flanders.
7. Nuns' Memories or Missing History in Alsace (c.1200).  8. Images of Royal and Aristocratic Burial in Northern Spain, c.950-c.1250.  Further Reading.

O autorze

Elisabeth Van Houts