1st Edition
Medieval Memories Men, Women and the Past, 700-1300
By Elisabeth Van Houts
Copyright 2001
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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Who, exactly, was responsible for the preservation of knowledge about the past? How did people preserve their recollections and pass them on to the next generation? Did they write them down or did they hand then on orally? The book 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.... Read more
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.
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.
Biography
Elisabeth Van Houts
