The making of memory in the Middle Ages
By: edited by Lucie Doležalová.
Contributors: Doležalová, Lucie.
Series: Later medieval Europe -- v. 4
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 499
ISBN-13: 9789004179257
Subjects: Civilization, Medieval; Middle Ages; Memory -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- To 1500; Collective memory -- Europe -- History -- To 1500; Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism; Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500; Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492; Europe -- Intellectual life; Europe -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Revisiting memory in the Middle Ages (introduction) / Lucie Doležalová and Tamas Visi; title: Communal memory of the distributed author : applicability of the connectionist model of memory to the study of traditional narratives / Slavica Rankovic.; title: pt. 1. Storing and recuperating knowledge; title: The art of memory in practice; title: Writing the memory of the virtues and vices in Johannes Sintram's (d. 1450) preaching aids / Kimberly Rivers; title: Memory, meditation, and preaching : a fifteenth-century memory machine in Central Europe (the text Nota hanc figuram composuerunt doctores.../Pro aliquali intelligentia...) / Farkas Gabor Kiss; title: The staging of memory : ars memorativa and the spectacle of imagination in late medieval preaching in Poland / Rafal Wojcik; title: On mistake and meaning : scinderationes fonorum in medieval artes memoriae, mnemonic verses, and manuscripts / Lucie Dolezalova; title: Mnemonic aids; title: The verse Bible as aide-memoire / Greti Dinkova-Bruun; title: Exhibete membra vestra : verbal and visual enthymeme as late medieval mnemotechnics / Laura Iseppi De Filippis; title: The late medieval summa Iovis as a case study for the use of poems as mnemonic aids / Rudiger Lorenz; title: Pseudo-apocryphal dialogue as a tool for the memorization of scholastic wisdom : the farewell of Christ to Mary and the Liber de vita Christi by Jacobus / Peter Toth; title: The Old Norse kenning as a mnemonic figure / Bergsveinn Birgisson.; title: pt. 2. Remembering and forgetting the past; title: Literary strategies; title: The landscape as a memory construction in the Latin Petrarch / Francesco Stella; title: Posthumous messages : memory, romance, and the Morte d'Arthur / Jon Whitman; title: "And nothing will be wasted" : actualization of the past in Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus miraculorum / Victoria Smirnova; title: Social contexts; title: The Latin vocabulary of memory in medieval Hungary / Elod Nemerkenyi; title: The construction of memory and the display of social bonds in the Life of Corpus Christi Fraternity from Sibiu Hermannstadt, Nagyszeben) / Carmen Florea; title: Props of memory, triggers of narration : time and space in medieval Jewish hagiography / Lucia Raspe; title: Individual versus collective memories; title: Anselm of Laon in the twelfth-century schools : between fama and memoria / Cedric Giraud; title: Memory and hagiography : the formation of the memory of three thirteenth-century female saints / David Falvay; title: Dixit quod non recordatur : memory as proof in inquisitorial trials (early fourteenth-century France) / Irene Bueno; title: Forgetting; title: Peasants' revolts memories : damnatio memoriae or hidden memories? / Vincent Challet; title: Remembering and forgetting the Sabians : Moses Maimonides, Moses Narboni, and Eleazar Eilenburg / Tamas Visi; title: Constructing the past; title: The past as a precedent : crusade, reconquest, and twelfth-century memories of a Christian Iberia / William J. Purkis; title: Memory of the past and Old Norse identity / Else Mundal; title: In memoriam defunctorum : visual arts as devices of memory / Elena Bartlova.