Medieval Memory
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
Download Medieval Memory PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Medieval Memory book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
The Book Of Memory
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
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
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
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
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
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.
Medieval Memory
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
Author : Fédération internationale des instituts d'études médiévales
language : en
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Release Date : 2004
Medieval Memory written by Fédération internationale des instituts d'études médiévales and has been published by Brepols Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Civilization, Medieval categories.
Eleven revised essays from an international conference held at the University of Antwerp in 2002, discuss the ways in which mnemonic devices were used in the literature of the medieval period. Historians and historical linguists look at how information was encoded in texts, designed to be retrieved by the reader, the role of mnemonic devices in literary creation and strategies for easing the reception and retention of textual content, drawing on French, Dutch and English examples. In this way they also presnet new insights into the content, composition, style, presentation and illustrations of texts. English and French papers.
The Medieval Craft Of Memory
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
Author : Mary Carruthers
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2002
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 2002 with Health & Fitness categories.
"A volume that will interest a wide spectrum of readers."—Patrick Geary, University of California, Los Angeles
The Making Of Memory In The Middle Ages
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
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.
Creative Selection Between Emending And Forming Medieval Memory
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
Author : Sebastian Scholz
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-11-08
Creative Selection Between Emending And Forming Medieval Memory written by Sebastian Scholz and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-08 with History categories.
Karl Valentin once asked: "How can it be that only as much happens as fits into the newspaper the next day?" He focussed on the problem that information of the past has to be organised, arranged and above all: selected and put into form in order to be perceived as a whole. In this sense, the process of selection must be seen as the fundamental moment – the “Urszene” – of making History. This book shows selection as highly creative act. With the richness of early medieval material it can be demonstrated that creative selection was omnipresent and took place even in unexpected text genres. The book demonstrates the variety how premodern authors dealt with "unimportant", unpleasant or unwanted past. It provides a general overview for regions and text genres in early medieval Europe.
Medieval Memories
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
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.
Memory And Medieval Tomb
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
Author : Elizabeth Valdez Del Alamo
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-01-15
Memory And Medieval Tomb written by Elizabeth Valdez Del Alamo and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-15 with Social Science categories.
This title was first published in 2000: Reverent memorial for the dead was the inspiration for the production of a significant category of artworks during the Middle Ages - artworks aimed as much at the laity as at the clergy, and intended to maintain, symbolically, the presence of the dead. Memoria, the term that describes the formal, liturgical memory of the dead, also includes artworks intended to house and honour the deceased. This book explores the ways in which medieval Christians sought to memorialize the deceased: with tombs, cenotaphs, altars and other furnishings connected to a real or symbolic burial site. A dozen essays analyze strategies for commemoration from the 4th to the 15th century: the means by which human memory could be activated or manipulated through the interaction between monuments, their setting, and the visitor. Building upon from the growing body of literature on memory in the Middle Ages, the collection focuses on the tomb monument and its context as a complex to define what is to be remembered, to fix memory, and to facilitate recollection. Remembering depended upon the emotionally charged interaction between the visitor, the funerary monument, strategically placed images or inscriptions, the liturgy and its participants. Commemorative artworks may consolidate social bonds as well as individual memory, as put forth in this volume. Parallels are drawn between mnemonic devices utilized in the Middle Ages, the design of monuments and contemporary scientific research in cognitive neuropsychology. The papers were originally presented at the 1994 meetings of the College Art Association and the International Congresses of Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, and the University of Leeds, England, in 1995.
The Medieval Craft Of Memory
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
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.