Yitzhak Hen

The Uses of the Past in the Early Middle Ages

Herausgeber: Hen, Yitzhak; Innes, Matthew

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the ways in which people in the early middle ages used the past.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9780521639989
• ISBN-10: 0521639980
• Artikelnr.: 21061816

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: using the past, interpreting the present, influencing the
future Matthew Innes; 2. Memory, identity and power in Lombard Italy Walter
Pohl; 3. Memory and narrative in the cult of the early Anglo-Saxon saints
Catherine Cubitt; 4. The uses of the Old Testament in early medieval canon
law: the Collectio vetus gallica and the Collectio hiberniensis Rob Meens;
5. The transmission of tradition: Gregorian influence and innovation in
eighth-century Italian monasticism Marios Costambeys; 6. The world and its
past as Christian allegory in the early middle ages Dominic Janes; 7. The
Franks as the new Israel? Education for an identity from Pippin to
Charlemagne Mary Garrison; 8. Political ideology in Carolingian
historiography Rosamond McKitterick; 9. The annals of Metz and the
Merovingian past Yitzhak Hen; 10. The empire as ecclesia: Hrabanus Maurus
and Biblical historia for rulers Mayke de Jong; 11. Teutons or Trojans? The
Carolingians and the Germanic past Matthew Innes; 12. A man for all
seasons: Pacifus of Verona and the creation of a local Carolingian past
Cristina La Rocca.