Medieval Concepts of the Past: Ritual, Memory, Historiography
Gerd Althoff & Johannes Fried & Professor Of Medieval History Johannes Fried & Patrick J. Geary & Director Center For Medieval & Renaissance Studies Patrick J Geary & German Historical Institute (washington, D.c.)
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 31, 2002
Description:
Medieval Concepts of the Past shows how the history of the Middle Ages is being reshaped by leading medieval historians in Germany and the United States in light of cultural and social-scientific investigations into ritual, language, and memory. These two national traditions of medieval scholarship, which have been largely separated over the course of the twentieth century, are drawing closer together through a common interest in issues of social science and linguistic theory as applied to the representation of the past. This book marks a significant step in the reconvergence of these two historiographical traditions.