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Memory and Gender in Medieval Europe, 900-1200 (Medieval Culture & Society S.)
Professor Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts
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Paperback. Remembering the past in the Middle Ages is a subject that is often perceived as a study of chronicles and annals written by monks. This book challenges this view and emphasizes the collaboration between men and women in the memorial tradition through both narrative sources and material culture. Series: Medieval Culture & Society. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; 3H; HBAH; HBJD; HBLC; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 265.
Remembering the past in the Middle Ages is a subject that is usually perceived as a study of chronicles and annals written by monks in monasteries. Following in the footsteps of early Christian historians such as Eusebius and St Augustine, the medieval chroniclers are thought of as men isolated in their monastic institutions, writing about the world around them. As the sole members of their society versed in literacy, they had a monopoly on the knowledge of the past as preserved in learned histories, which they themselves updated and continued. A self-perpetuating cycle of monks writing chronicles, which were read, ... Read more
Remembering the past in the Middle Ages is a subject that is usually perceived as a study of chronicles and annals written by monks in monasteries. Following in the footsteps of early Christian historians such as Eusebius and St Augustine, the medieval chroniclers are thought of as men isolated in their monastic institutions, writing about the world around them. As the sole members of their society versed in literacy, they had a monopoly on the knowledge of the past as preserved in learned histories, which they themselves updated and continued. A self-perpetuating cycle of monks writing chronicles, which were read, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Series
Medieval Culture & Society
Condition
New
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333568590
SKU
V9780333568590
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About Professor Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts
ELISABETH VAN HOUTS is Lecturer in Medieval History at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Reviews for Memory and Gender in Medieval Europe, 900-1200 (Medieval Culture & Society S.)
'Van Houts is much too experienced a historian to overstate women's contribution to the memorialising of the medieval past: what she rightly insists on, and what gives this book its cutting edge, is that women's contribution be recognised as important and distinctive...she has produced a book that's timely, path-breaking, and emphatically more than the sum of its parts.' - Janet ... Read more