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Creative Selection between Emending and Forming Medieval Memory /

Karl Valentin once asked: "How can it be that only as much happens as fits into the newspaper the next day?" He focussed on the problem that information of the past has to be organised, arranged and above all: selected and put into form in order to be perceived as a whole. In this sense, t...

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Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors: Blennemann, Gordon (Contributor), Depreux, Philippe (Contributor), Eber, Michael (Contributor), Esders, Stefan (Contributor), Ganz, David (Contributor), Geary, Patrick (Contributor), Groten, Manfred (Contributor), Kelly, Michael J. (Contributor), Pohl, Walter (Contributor), Reimitz, Helmut (Contributor), Scholz, Sebastian (Contributor, Editor), Schwedler, Gerald (Contributor, Editor), Sonntag, Jörg (Contributor), Stüber, Till (Contributor), Wood, Ian (Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]
Series:Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies : Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n. Chr. / Studies in the Culture and History of the First Millennium C.E., 96
Subjects:
Middle Ages > Historiography.
HISTORY > Medieval.
damnatio memoriae.
early middle ages.
historiography.
memory.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Karl Valentin once asked: "How can it be that only as much happens as fits into the newspaper the next day?" He focussed on the problem that information of the past has to be organised, arranged and above all: selected and put into form in order to be perceived as a whole. In this sense, the process of selection must be seen as the fundamental moment - the "Urszene"--Of making History. This book shows selection as highly creative act. With the richness of early medieval material it can be demonstrated that creative selection was omnipresent and took place even in unexpected text genres. The book demonstrates the variety how premodern authors dealt with "unimportant", unpleasant or unwanted past. It provides a general overview for regions and text genres in early medieval Europe
Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 204 pages)
ISBN:3110757273
9783110757279
ISSN:1862-1139 ;