Ancient And Medieval Memories
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Ancient And Medieval Memories
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Author : Janet Coleman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1992-01-30
Ancient And Medieval Memories written by Janet Coleman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-30 with History categories.
This book is an analysis of thinking, remembering and reminiscing according to ancient authors, and their medieval readers. The author argues that behind the various medieval methods in interpreting texts of the past lie two apparently incompatible theories of human knowledge and remembering, as well as two differing attitudes to matter and intellect. The book comprises a series of studies which take ancient texts as evidence of the past, and show how medieval readers and writers understood them. The studies confirm that medieval and renaissance interpretations and uses of the past differ greatly from modern interpretation and yet betray many startling continuities between modern and ancient and medieval theories.
Creative Selection Between Emending And Forming Medieval Memory
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Author : Sebastian Scholz
language : en
Publisher: de Gruyter
Release Date : 2022
Creative Selection Between Emending And Forming Medieval Memory written by Sebastian Scholz and has been published by de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with History categories.
"How can it be, that only as much happens as fits into the newspaper the next day?" (K. Valentin). Information of the past has to be organised, arranged and selected. The process of selection must be seen as the fundamental moment of making History.
Medieval Memories
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Author : Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Medieval Memories written by Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
Medieval Memories
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Author : Elisabeth Van-Houts
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-13
Medieval Memories written by Elisabeth Van-Houts and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-13 with History categories.
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. Many memories centre in the aristocratic family or lineage while others are focussed on institutions such as monasteries or nunneries. The family and monastic contexts clearly illustrate that remembrance of the past was a task for men and women and that each sex had a specific gendered role. Memory also involves selection of what should and should not be remembered and its corollary, amnesia, therefore, is discussed. Anchored in the present, memory casts a shadow on the future and thus prophecies form an important component of the cult of remembrance. For the first time in Medieval Memories, tombstones, medieval encyclopaedias and legal testimonies figure alongside moral guidebooks, miracle stories and chronicles as material for the gendered perceptions of the medieval past.
The Medieval Craft Of Memory
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Author : Mary Carruthers
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2016-01-22
The Medieval Craft Of Memory written by Mary Carruthers and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-22 with History categories.
In antiquity and the Middle Ages, memory was a craft, and certain actions and tools were thought to be necessary for its creation and recollection. Until now, however, many of the most important visual and textual sources on the topic have remained untranslated or otherwise difficult to consult. Mary Carruthers and Jan M. Ziolkowski bring together the texts and visual images from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries that are central to an understanding of memory and memory technique. These sources are now made available for a wider audience of students of medieval and early modern history and culture and readers with an interest in memory, mnemonics, and the synergy of text and image. The art of memory was most importantly associated in the Middle Ages with composition, and those who practiced the craft used it to make new prayers, sermons, pictures, and music. The mixing of visual and verbal media was commonplace throughout medieval cultures: pictures contained visual puns, words were often verbal paintings, and both were used equally as tools for making thoughts. The ability to create pictures in one's own mind was essential to medieval cognitive technique and imagination, and the intensely pictorial and affective qualities of medieval art and literature were generative, creative devices in themselves.
The Book Of Memory
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Author : Mary J. Carruthers
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1992-05-14
The Book Of Memory written by Mary J. Carruthers and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-05-14 with History categories.
The Book of Memory is a magisterial and beautifully illustrated account of the workings and function of memory in medieval society. Memory was the psychological faculty valued above all others in the period stretching from late antiquity through the Renaissance. The prominence given to memory has profound implications for the contemporary understanding of all creative activity, and the social role of literature and art. Drawing on a range of fascinating examples from Dante, Chaucer, and Aquinas to the symbolism of illuminated manuscripts, this unusually wide-ranging book offers new insights into the medieval world.
The Book Of Memory
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Author : Mary Carruthers
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2008-05-01
The Book Of Memory written by Mary Carruthers and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first. While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new edition devotes much more attention to the role of trained memory in composition, whether of literature, music, architecture, or manuscript books. The new edition will reignite the debate on memory in medieval studies and, like the first, will be essential reading for scholars of history, music, the arts and literature, as well as those interested in issues of orality and literacy (anthropology), in the working and design of memory (both neuropsychology and artificial memory), and in the disciplines of meditation (religion).
Memory And Commemoration In Medieval Culture
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Author : Elma Brenner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-22
Memory And Commemoration In Medieval Culture written by Elma Brenner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-22 with History categories.
In medieval society and culture, memory occupied a unique position. It was central to intellectual life and the medieval understanding of the human mind. Commemoration of the dead was also a fundamental Christian activity. Above all, the past - and the memory of it - occupied a central position in medieval thinking, from ideas concerning the family unit to those shaping political institutions. Focusing on France but incorporating studies from further afield, this collection of essays marks an important new contribution to the study of medieval memory and commemoration. Arranged thematically, each part highlights how memory cannot be studied in isolation, but instead intersects with many other areas of medieval scholarship, including art history, historiography, intellectual history, and the study of religious culture. Key themes in the study of memory are explored, such as collective memory, the links between memory and identity, the fallibility of memory, and the linking of memory to the future, as an anticipation of what is to come.
The Making Of Memory In The Middle Ages
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Author : Lucie Doležalová
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2009-11-17
The Making Of Memory In The Middle Ages written by Lucie Doležalová and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-17 with History categories.
Based on case studies from across Europe including its ‘peripheries,’ this book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the notion of memory in the Middle Ages concentrating on contructing memory both as individual competence and as part of a society’s identity.
History And Memory In Ancient Greece
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Author : Gordon Spencer Shrimpton
language : en
Publisher: McGill Queens Univ
Release Date : 1997
History And Memory In Ancient Greece written by Gordon Spencer Shrimpton and has been published by McGill Queens Univ this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
This book examines the early Greek historians; Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Ephorus and Theopompus; how they perceived `history', their investigative procedures, the relationship between the observer and the observed and how ancient and modern historiographical approaches differ. Shrimpton argues that ancient historians saw memories about public events as public possesions: they recorded public knowledge and were judged for their style and saw travel as the best way to acquire and transmit knowledge. Also assessed is the question of historical accuracy and the methods used by ancient historians to give their narratives authenticity. A scholarly work, full of ancient and modern references and comparisons.