Medieval Memories: Men, Women and the Past, 700-1300

by Elisabeth van Houts and Elizabeth van Houts

Book Overview

Who, exactly, was responsible for the preservation of knowledge about the past? How did people preserve their recollections and pass them on to the next generation? Did they write them down or did they hand then on orally? The book is concerned with the memories of medieval people. In the Middle Ages, as now, men and women collected stories about the past and handed them down to posterity. Many memories centre in the aristocratic family or lineage...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582369029
• ISBN13: 9780582369023
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"