This volume investigates the ways in which people in the early Middle Ages used the past: to legitimate the present, to understand current events, and as a source of identity. Each essay examines the mechanisms by which ideas about the past were subtly (and sometimes not so subtly) reshaped for present purposes. As well as written histories, also discussed are saints' lives, law codes, buildings, Biblical commentary, monastic foundations, canon law and oral traditions. This is the first book to investigate systematically this important topic.
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"The volume cannot be recommended highly enough. Specialists will find careful and thought-provoking scholarship, and amateurs will discover a quick fix into the newest ways of thinking about Carolingian society, history, and historiography...the volume is like having an expert guide to some labyrinthine old city who can point out the secret gardens hidden in alleyways and tell the dramatic story behind an overlooked facade." The Historian
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This volume investigates the ways in which people in the early middle ages used the past: to legitimate the present, to understand current events, and as a source of identity. Each essay examines the mechanisms by which ideas about the past were subtly (and sometimes not so subtly) reshaped for present purposes. As well as written histories, also discussed are saints' lives, law codes, buildings, Biblical commentary, monastic foundations, canon law and oral traditions. This is the first book to investigate systematically this important topic.
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In 1222, a notary from Piacenza, Johannes Codagnellus, told a very uplifting story. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
schola sacerdotum, biblical historia, royal laudes, nocturnal clock, monastic memory, prose lives, monastic patronage, early medieval history, medieval memory, papal letters, anonymous life, early medieval society, first inscription, second inscription, warrior culture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Testament, Gregory the Great, Paul the Deacon, Louis the Pious, Old English, Charles the Bald, New York, Anglo-Saxon England, Collectio Hibernensis, Louis the German, New Testament, Gregory of Tours, New Israel, Annales Regni Francorum, Carolingian Latin, Hrabanus Maurus, Song of Songs, Lex Salica, Life of Cuthbert, Lombard Italy, Emperor Lothar, Empress Judith, Charles Martel, Die Bedeutung, Jarrow Lecture New!
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In 1222, a notary from Piacenza, Johannes Codagnellus, told a very uplifting story. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
schola sacerdotum, biblical historia, royal laudes, nocturnal clock, monastic memory, prose lives, monastic patronage, early medieval history, medieval memory, papal letters, anonymous life, early medieval society, first inscription, second inscription, warrior culture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Testament, Gregory the Great, Paul the Deacon, Louis the Pious, Old English, Charles the Bald, New York, Anglo-Saxon England, Collectio Hibernensis, Louis the German, New Testament, Gregory of Tours, New Israel, Annales Regni Francorum, Carolingian Latin, Hrabanus Maurus, Song of Songs, Lex Salica, Life of Cuthbert, Lombard Italy, Emperor Lothar, Empress Judith, Charles Martel, Die Bedeutung, Jarrow Lecture New!
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- Charles the Bald (Medieval World) by Janet L. Nelson on 9 pages
- Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 28 by Michael Lapidge on 6 pages
- Gregory of Tours Pb (Headstart History Papers) by Ian Wood on page 19, page 123, and page 248
- An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England by Peter Hunter Blair on page 74, and page 95
- History of the Goths by Herwig Wolfram on page 2, and page 14
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- Literacy in Lombard Italy, c.568-774 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series) by Nicholas Everett on 5 pages
- Gender in the Early Medieval World: East and West, 300-900 by Leslie Brubaker on 4 pages
- Humour, History and Politics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages by Guy Halsall in Front Matter, page 133, and page 189
- The Bobbio Missal: Liturgy and Religious Culture in Merovingian Gaul (Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology) by Yitzhak Hen in Front Matter, and page 191
- Politics and Power in Early Medieval Europe: Alsace and the Frankish Realm, 600-1000 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series) by Hans J. Hummer on page 148, and Back Matter
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