Phantoms of Remembrance
Subtitle: Memory and Oblivion at the End of the First Millennium
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: January 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780691034225
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Historiography; Oral history; Social history; World history: c 500 to C 1500; Philosophy; Philosophy Of History; History - General History; History: World; Europe; Medieval; History; Memory; Methodology
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.