Memory and gender in medieval Europe, 900-1200

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Memory and gender in medieval Europe, 900-1200

Elisabeth van Houts

(Explorations in medieval culture and society)

Macmillan, 1999

  • : hard
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: hard ISBN 9780333568583

内容説明

Remembering the past in the Middle Ages is a subject that is often 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, updated and continued by the next generation, so the argument goes, remained the vehicle for a narrative tradition of historical writing for the rest of the Middle Ages. Elisabeth van Houts challenges this view and emphasizes the collaboration between men and women in the memorial tradition of the Middle Ages through both narrative sources (chronicles, saints' lives and miracles) and material culture (objects such as jewellery, memorial stones and sacred vessels).

目次

Preface Introduction PART ONE: GENDER AND AUTHORITY OF ORAL WITNESSES Chronicles and Annals Saints' Lives and Miracles PART TWO: REMEMBRANCE OF THE PAST Ancestors, Family Reputation and Female Traditions Objects as Pegs for Memory PART THREE: ONE EVENT REMEMBERED The Memory of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 Conclusion Appendices Abbreviations Notes Further Reading Index
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780333568590

内容説明

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, updated and continued by the next generation, so the argument goes, remained the vehicle for a narrative tradition of historical writing for the rest of the Middle Ages. Elisabeth van Houts forcefully challenges this view and emphasises the collaboration between men and women in the memorial tradition of the Middle Ages through both narrative sources (chronicles, saints' lives and miracles) and material culture (objects such as jewellery, memorial stones and sacred vessels). Men may have dominated the pages of literature from the period, but they would not have had half the stories to write about if women had not told them: thus the remembrance of the past was a human experience shared equally between men and women.

目次

Preface Introduction PART ONE: GENDER AND AUTHORITY OF ORAL WITNESSES Chronicles and Annals Saints' Lives and Miracles PART TWO: REMEMBRANCE OF THE PAST Ancestors, Family Reputation and Female Traditions Objects as Pegs for Memory PART THREE: ONE EVENT REMEMBERED The Memory of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 Conclusion Appendices Abbreviations Notes Further Reading Index

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