"Medieval Concepts of the Past" shows how the history of the Middle Ages is reshaped by leading medieval historians in Germany and the United States in the 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 science and linguistic theory as applied to the representation of the past. This book marks a step in the reconvergence of these two historiographical traditions.
Author(s): Gerd Althoff, Johannes Fried, Patrick J. Geary (eds.)
Series: Publications of the German Historical Institute
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: XII+354
List of Illustrations page ix
List of Contributors xi
Introduction / Gerd Althoff, Johannes Fried, and Patrick J. Geary 1
1. Authority and Legitimation of Royal Policy and Action: The Case of Henry II / Stefan Weinfurter 19
2. King Henry II of Germany: Royal Self-Representation and Historical Memory / John W. Bernhardt 39
3. The Variability of Rituals in the Middle Ages / Gerd Althoff 71
4. Rebels and Rituals: From Demonstrations of Enmity to Criminal Justice / Hanna Vollrath 89
5. Oblivion Between Orality and Textuality in the Tenth Century / Patrick J. Geary 111
6. Text and Ritual in Ninth-Century Political Culture: Rome, 864 / Philippe Buc 123
7. The Concept of Time in the Historiography of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries / Hans-Werner Goetz 139
8. Constructing the Past by Means of the Present: Historiographical Foundations of Medieval Institutions, Dynasties, Peoples, and Communities / Bernd Schneidmüller 167
9. Topographies of Memory: Center and Periphery in High Medieval France / Amy G. Remensnyder 193
10. Challenging the Culture of Memoria: Dead Men, Oblivion, and the “Faithless Widow” in the Middle Ages / Bernhard Jussen 215
11. Artistic and Literary Representations of Family Consciousness / John B. Freed 233
12. The Strange Pilgrimage of Odo of Deuil / Beate Schuster 253
13. The Rhineland Massacres of Jews in the First Crusade: Memories Medieval and Modern / David Nirenberg 279
14. The Martyr, the Tomb, and the Matron: Constructing the (Masculine) "Past" as a Female Power Base / Felice Lifshitz 311
Index 343
