Rewriting Saints and Ancestors: Memory and Forgetting in France, 5-12

by Constance Brittain Bouchard

Thinkers in medieval France constantly reconceptualized what had come before, interpreting past events to give validity to the present and help control the future. The long-dead saints who presided over churches and the ancestors of established dynasties were an especially crucial part of creative memory, Constance Brittain Bouchard contends. In Rewriting Saints and Ancestors she examines how such ex post facto accounts are less an impediment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812246365
• ISBN13: 9780812246360
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"