Forgery and Memory at the End of the First Millennium (eBook)

Levi Roach (Autor)

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2021
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9780691217871 (ISBN)

Infos

An in-depth exploration of documentary forgery at the turn of the first millennium Forgery and Memory at the End of the First Millennium takes a fresh look at documentary forgery and historical memory in the Middle Ages. In the tenth and eleventh centuries, religious houses across Europe began falsifying texts to improve local documentary records on an unprecedented scale. As Levi Roach illustrates, the resulting wave of forgery signaled major shifts in society and political culture, shifts which would lay the foundations for the European ancien regime.Spanning documentary traditions across France, England, Germany and northern Italy, Roach examines five sets of falsified texts to demonstrate how forged records produced in this period gave voice to new collective identities within and beyond the Church. Above all, he indicates how this fad for falsification points to new attitudes toward past and present-a developing fascination with the signs of antiquity. These conclusions revise traditional master narratives about the development of antiquarianism in the modern era, showing that medieval forgers were every bit as sophisticated as their Renaissance successors. Medieval forgers were simply interested in different subjects-the history of the Church and their local realms, rather than the literary world of classical antiquity.A comparative history of falsified records at a crucial turning point in the Middle Ages, Forgery and Memory at the End of the First Millennium offers valuable insights into how institutions and individuals rewrote and reimagined the past.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.2.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 52 b/w illus. 4 tables. 3 maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: 920s • 930s • 950s • 960s • Abbo • Abingdon abbey • Alfred Hiatt • Ambiguity • Anachronism • Anathema • Anglo-Saxon England • archbishop of Salzburg • Archchancellor • Archive • Arduin • Arduin of Ivrea • Arnulf (bishop of Orléans) • Arnulf of Metz • Benedict of Nursia • Bishop • Bishop Hildibald • Bishop Leo of Vercelli • bishop of Orleans • Bishop Pilgrim of Passau • Bishopric of Merseburg • Bishopric of Worms • Burchard of Worms • Canonization • Capetian France • Carolingian dynasty • Cartulary • Cathedral chapter • Chapter house • Charles the Fat • Christian monasticism • Citation • Cloister • Corporate Identity • counterfeit • Criticism • deed • de facto • Diocese • diploma • diplomatic • Eadwig • Ealdorman • ecclesiastical history • En route (novel) • enthusiasm • Eschatocol • Excommunication • Facsimile • feudal revolution • Foray • Forgery • Funding • Giacomo Matteotti • Illustration • Investiture Controversy • Isidore of Seville • Literacy • Literature • Local History • Lotharingia • Louis the Blind • Louis the German • Louis the Pious • Making of Medieval Forgeries • Manuscript • Margrave • margrave of Ivrea • medieval church • Merovingian dynasty • Middle Ages • Monasticism • monk Anno • monks of Fleury • Monte Cassino • Muniment • narrative • narrative history • Odenwald • Orthodoxorum charters • Ottonian Germany • Papal legate • Parchment • Passau • Patrick Geary • Phantoms of Remembrance • Pontiff • Pope • Pope Gregory I • Preamble • Precedent • Precept • Prelate • Prerogative • presumption • Presumption (canon law) • Princeton University Press • Publication • Publishing • Regularis Concordia (Winchester) • Reims • result • rhetoric • royal charter • scrutiny • stipulation • Supporter • synod • the monastery • The Other Hand • Thought • Three Bishoprics • Uncertainty • Vercelli • West Francia • Worms forgeries • Writing • Wulfgar (Forgotten Realms)
• ISBN-13: 9780691217871 / 9780691217871