Medieval concepts of the past : ritual, memory, historiography /

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Corporate Author: German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.)
Other Authors: Althoff, Gerd, Fried, Johannes, Geary, Patrick J., 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute ; Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Series:Publications of the German Historical Institute
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Table of Contents:
  • Authority and legitimation of royal policy and action: the case of Henry II / Stefan Weinfurter
  • King Henry II of Germany: royal self-representation and historical memory / John W. Bernhardt
  • The variability of rituals in the middle ages / Gerd Althoff
  • Rebels and rituals: from demonstrations of enmity to criminal justice / Hanna Vollrath
  • Oblivion between orality and textuality in the tenth century / Patrick J. Geary
  • Text and ritual in ninth-century political culture: Rome, 864 / Philippe Buc
  • The concept of time in the historiography of the eleventh and twelfth centuries / Hans-Werner Goetz
  • Constructing the past by means of the present: historiographical foundations of medieval institutions, dynasties, peoples, and communities / Bernd Schneidmüller
  • Topographies of memory: center and periphery in high medieval France / Amy G. Remensnyder
  • Challenging the culture of memoria: dead men, oblivion, and the "faithless widow" in the middle ages / Bernhard Jussen
  • Artistic and literary representations of family consciousness / John B. Freed
  • The strange pilgrimage of odo of deuil / Beate Schuster
  • The Rhineland massacres of Jews in the first crusade: memories medieval and modern / David Nirenberg
  • The martyr, the tomb, and the matron: constructing the (masculine) "past" as a female power base / Felice Lifshitz.