Phantoms of Remembrance: Memory and Oblivion at the End of the First Millennium

by Patrick J. Geary

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691026033
• ISBN13: 9780691026039
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"