Medieval Concepts of the Past: Ritual, Memory, Historiography

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521060281
• ISBN13: 9780521060288
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"