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

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Publishing Details

Full Title:

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

Contributors:

By (Author) Patrick J. Geary

ISBN:

9780691026039

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

Imprint:

Princeton University Press

Publication Date:

15th July 1996

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Professional and Scholarly

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

History: theory and methods
Social and cultural history

Dewey:

909.1

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

264

Dimensions:

Width 152mm, Height 235mm

Weight:

397g

Description

Makes important inroads into the widely discussed topic of historical memory, evoking the everyday lives of eleventh-century people and both their written and nonwritten ways of preserving the past. This title unearths a range of approaches to preserving the past as it was or formulating the past that an individual or group prefers to imagine.

Reviews

"Moving from general to particular, the author uses three case-studies to depict local patterns of memory... Geary states his thesis with clarity ... [and] throw[s] light into the most elusive recesses of not just 'the past,' but of processes still going on, in and around us, in 1995."--Alexander Murray, The Times Literary Supplement "[A] fascinating, deeply learned, and meticulous study... This thoughtful book ... raises important questions pertinent to all periods."--Virginia Quarterly Review

Author Bio

Patrick J. Geary is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages (Princeton).

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