{"product_id":"the-resources-of-the-past-in-early-medieval-europe-hardback-9781107091719","title":"The Resources of the Past in Early Medieval Europe (Hardback) 9781107091719","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Resources of the Past in Early Medieval Europe\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis volume examines the use of the textual resources of the past to shape cultural memory in early medieval Europe.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eClemens Gantner (Edited by), Rosamond McKitterick (Edited by), Sven Meeder (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107091719, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 February 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e372 pages, 5 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e24 x 16 x 2.5 cm, 0.72 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Over the course of four thematic sections ('Learning Empire', 'The Biblical Past', 'Changing Senses of the Other from the Fourth to the Eleventh Century' and 'The Migration of Cultural Traditions in Early Medieval Europe'), the fifteen essays in this collection provide case studies of the ways in which early medieval authors drew upon the textual resources of the past to inform the present.' Scott G. Bruce, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis volume analyses the importance of history, the textual resources of the past and the integration of Christian and imperial Rome into the cultural memory of early medieval Europe within the wider question of identity formation. The case studies in this book shed new light on the process of codification and modification of cultural heritage in the light of the transmission of texts and the extant manuscript evidence from the early Middle Ages. The authors demonstrate how particular texts and their early medieval manuscript representatives in Italy, Francia, Saxony and Bavaria not only reflect ethnic, social and cultural identities but themselves contributed to the creation of identities, gave meaning to social practice, and were often intended to inspire, guide, change, or prevent action, directly or indirectly. These texts are shown to be part of a cultural effort to shape the present by restructuring the past.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: cultural memory and the resources of the past Walter Pohl and Ian Wood\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Learning Empire: 1. Creating cultural resources for Carolingian rule: historians of the Christian empire Walter Pohl\u003cbr\u003e 2. Cassiodorus's Historia tripartita before the earliest extant manuscripts Desirée Scholten\u003cbr\u003e 3. Politics and penance: transformations in the Carolingian perception of the conversion of Carloman (747) Erik Goosman\u003cbr\u003e 4. Lessons in leadership: Constantine and Theodosius in Frechulf of Lisieux's Histories Graeme Ward\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Biblical Past: 5. Carolingian political discourse and the biblical past: Hraban, Dhuoda, Radbert Mayke de Jong\u003cbr\u003e 6. Biblical past and canonical present: the case of the Collectio 400 capitulorum Sven Meeder\u003cbr\u003e 7. Divine law and imperial rule: the Carolingian reception of Junilius Africanus Marianne Pollheimer\u003cbr\u003e 8. Framing Ambrose in the resources of the past: the late antique and early medieval sources for a Carolingian portrait of Ambrose Giorgia Vicino\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Changing Senses of the Other from the Fourth to the Eleventh Centuries: 9. Pagans, rebels and Merovingians: otherness in the early Carolingian world Richard Broome\u003cbr\u003e 10. Who are the Philistines? Bede's readings of Old Testament peoples Ian Wood\u003cbr\u003e 11. Gens perfida or populus Christianus? Saxon (in)fidelity in Frankish historical writing Robert Flierman\u003cbr\u003e 12. Fragmented identities: otherness and authority in Adam of Bremen's History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen Timothy Barnwell\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Migration of Cultural Traditions in Early Medieval Europe: 13. Transformations of the Roman past and Roman identity in the early Middle Ages Rosamond McKitterick\u003cbr\u003e 14. The eighth-century papacy as cultural broker Clemens Gantner\u003cbr\u003e 15. Transformations of Late Antiquity: the writing and re-writing of church history at the monastery of Lorsch, c.800 Helmut Reimitz\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion Mayke de Jong and Rosamond McKitterick\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265599525144,"sku":"9781107091719","price":85.28,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107091719i.jpg?v=1696792107","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-resources-of-the-past-in-early-medieval-europe-hardback-9781107091719","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}