Screen LibraryHow the past was used : historical cultures, c. 750-2000 /
This book explores how societies put the past to use and how, in the process, they represented it: in short, their historical culture. It brings together anthropologists, historians, and literary scholars to address the means by which societies, groups, and individuals have engaged with the past and...
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Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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Proceedings of the British Academy,
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This book explores how societies put the past to use and how, in the process, they represented it: in short, their historical culture. It brings together anthropologists, historians, and literary scholars to address the means by which societies, groups, and individuals have engaged with the past and expressed their understanding of it. 00The utility of the past has proven almost as infinitely variable as the modes of its representation. It might be a matter of learning lessons from experience, or about the legitimacy of a cause or regime, or the reputation of an individual. Rival versions an |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780197266120 0197266126 |
| Index Number: | D13 |
| CLC: | K0 |
| Call Number: | K0/H847 |
| Contents: | Introduction. What is historical culture? / Peter Lambert ; Themes in historical culture / Björn Weiler -- Imagining Rome in medieval Constantinople : memory, politics, and the past in the Middle Byzantine Period / Dimitris Krallis -- The present and the past in the sagas of Icelanders / Haki Antonsson -- Monastic historical culture and the utility of a remote past : the case of Matthew Paris / Björn Weiler -- Legend and historical experience in fifteenth-century Ottoman narratives of the past / Dimitri Kastritsis -- The chronicler and the count : law, libel, and history in the early mod |