Screen LibraryRewriting saints and ancestors : memory and forgetting in france, 500-1200 /
Rewriting Saints and Ancestors examines the ways medieval French writers re-remembered and rewrote the lives of saints and dynastic ancestors, reconceptualizing the past in order to make sense of the present.
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2014] ©2014 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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The middle ages series
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http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812290080 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9780812290080.jpg |
| Summary: |
Rewriting Saints and Ancestors examines the ways medieval French writers re-remembered and rewrote the lives of saints and dynastic ancestors, reconceptualizing the past in order to make sense of the present. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | 7 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812290080 |
| Index Number: | D13 |
| CLC: | K565.9 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Ilustrations -- Preface -- Notes on Terminology -- Introduction -- 1. Cartularies: Remembering the Documentary Past -- 2. The Composition and Purpose of Cartularies -- 3. Twelfth-Century Narratives of the Past -- 4. Polyptyques: Twelfth-Century Monks Face the Ninth Century -- 5. An Age of Forgery -- 6. Remembering the Carolingians -- 7. Creation of a Carolingian Dynasty -- 8. Western Monasteries and the Carolingians -- 9. Eighth-Century Transitions: The Evidence from Burgundy -- 10. Great Noble Families in the Early Middle Ages -- 11. Early Frankish Monasticism -- 12. Remembering Martyrs and Relics in Sixth-Century Gaul -- Conclusion -- Appendix I. Monasteries in Burgundy and Southern Champagne -- Appendix II. Churches in Auxerre -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |