Phantoms of Remembrance
Subtitle: Memory and Oblivion at the End of the First Millenium
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: April 15, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780691026039
Subjects: History: theory & methods; Social history; World history: c 500 to C 1500; History: World; History; History - General History; Medieval; Archaeology and Ancient History; History / Medieval; Religion; Sociology; General
First sentence: THE NEW PAST forged in the eleventh century by Rodulfus Glaber, Arnold of Regensburg, and their contemporaries, with its emphasis on radical discontinuity, is an enduring creation: its central outlines, accepted and elaborated upon by subsequent medieval generations, have been largely accepted by modern historians.