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In "Phantoms of Remembrance", Patrick Geary makes important new inroads into the widely discussed topic of historical memory, vividly evoking the everyday lives of eleventh-century people and both their written and nonwritten ways of preserving the past. Women praying for their dead, monks creating and re-creating their archives, scribes choosing which royal families of the past to applaud and which to forget: it is from such sources that most of our knowledge of the medieval period comes. Throughout richly detailed descriptions of various acts of remembrance - including the naming of children and the recording of visions - the author unearths a wide range of approaches to preserving the past as it was or formulating the past that an individual or group prefers to imagine.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Phantoms of Remembrance
• Subtitle: Memory and Oblivion at the End of the First Millennium
• Author: Patrick J. Geary
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• EAN: 9780691026039
• ISBN: 0691026033
• ID: 04639617
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 398 g
• Dimensions: 154 × 236 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. April 1996

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