| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 283 pages) |
| Contents |
Memory, identity, and power in Lombard Italy / Walter Pohl -- Memory and narrative in the cult of early Anglo-Saxon saints / Catherine Cubitt -- The uses of the Old Testament in early medieval canon law: the Collectio Vetus Gallica and the Collectio Hibernensis / Rob Meens -- The transmission of tradition: Gregorian influence and innovation in eighth-century Italian monasticism / Marios Costambeys -- The world and its past as Christian allegory in the early Middle Ages / Dominic Janes -- The Franks as the new Israel?: Education for an identity from Pippin to Charlemagne / Mary Garrison -- Political ideology in Carolingian historiography / Rosamond McKitterick -- The annals of Metz and the Merovingian past / Yitzhak Hen -- The empire as ecclesia: Hrabanus Maurus and biblical historia for rulers / Mayka De Jong -- Teutons or Trojans? The Carolingian and the Germanic past / Matthew Innes -- A man for all seasons: Pacificus of Verona and the creation of a local Carolingian past / Cristina La Rocca |
| Summary |
This is the first book to investigate how 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 - sometimes - subtly reshaped for present purposes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Middle Ages -- Historiography -- Congresses
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Middle Ages -- Historiography -- Congresses
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HISTORY.
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Middle Ages -- Historiography
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Geschichtsschreibung
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Mittelalter
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Historisch besef.
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Herinnering.
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Idade média.
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Historiografia.
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Histoire médiévale -- Historiographie -- Congrès.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hen, Yitzhak.
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Innes, Matthew.
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| ISBN |
0521630010 |
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9780521630016 |
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0521639980 |
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9780521639989 |
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0511117019 |
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9780511117015 |
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0511040059 |
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9780511040054 |
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9780511496332 |
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0511496338 |
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9780511050855 |
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0511050852 |
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0511153260 |
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9780511153266 |
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