Memory was vital to the functioning of the medieval world. People in medieval societies shared an identity based on commonly held memories. Religions, rulers, and even cities and nations justified their existence and their status through stories that guaranteed their deep and unbroken historical roots.
The studies in this interdisciplinary collection explore how manifestations of memory can be used by historians as a prism through which to illuminate European medieval thought and value systems. The contributors draw the link between memory and medieval science, management of power, and remembrance of the dead ancestors through examples from southern Europe as a means of enriching and complicating our study of the Middle Ages; this is a region with a large amount of documentation but which to date has not been widely studied.
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- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Introduction:
Memory in the Middle Ages — Flocel Sabaté
- Part 1: Memory and Science
- 1. Memory and the Body in Medieval
Medicine — Fernando Salmón
- 2. James I of Aragon, Vicent Ferrer, and Francesc Eiximenis — Xavier Renedo
- Part 2: Memory of the Past as Identity
- 3. History, Memory, and Ideas about the Past in the Early Middle Ages — Rosamond McKitterick
- 4. Charter Writing and Documentary Memory in the Origins of Catalan History — Michel Zimmermann
- 5. The Memory of Saints in the Hispanic Translationes of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries — Ariel Guiance
- 6. Establishing a Memory in Medieval Spain — Adeline Rucquoi
- 7. The Legend of the Princess of Navarre — Luciano Gallinari
- Part 3: Memory and Power
- 8. Memory of the State or Memory of the Kingdom? — Jean-Philippe Genet
- 9. Art to Seal the Memory — Marta Serrano
- 10. Architecture and Legacy in Medieval Navarre — Javier Martínez de Aguirre
- 11. Family Memory in Late Medieval Catalonia — Mireia Comas-Via
- Part 4: Memory and Commemorating the Dead
- 12. The Tomb as Tool for Keeping Memory Alive — Ana del Campo Gutiérrez
- 13. Wills, Tombs, and Preparation for a Good Death in Late Medieval
Portugal — Marta Miriam Ramos Dias
- 14. Ceremonial Topography in the Consueta Antiga of the Cathedral of Mallorca — Antoni Pons Cortès
- Part 5: Remembering the Middle Ages
- 15. Memory and Identity in Catalan-Aragonese Sardinia from 1323 to the Present — Esther Martí
- 16. Nineteenth-Century French Legal History and the Memory of the Middle Ages — Luis Rojas Donat
- 17. Spolia and Memory in Nineteenth-Century Venice — Myriam Pilutti Namer
- 18. Neo-Medievalism and the Anchoring of New Spatial Identities — Kees Terlouw
- 19. The Hegemony of the Cult of Anniversaries and its Disadvantages for Historians — William M. Johnston
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