The making of memory in the Middle Ages [electronic resource] / edited by Lucie Doležalová.
by
 
Doležalová, Lucie.

ISBN
9789047441601

Title
The making of memory in the Middle Ages [electronic resource] / edited by Lucie Doležalová.

Author
Doležalová, Lucie.

Publication Information
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Physical Description
1 online resource (xxi, 499 pages) : illustrations.

Series
Later medieval Europe, v. 4

Contents
Revisiting memory in the Middle Ages (introduction) / Lucie Doležalová and Tamás Visi -- Communal memory of the distributed author : applicability of the connectionist model of memory to the study of traditional narratives / Slavica Ranković.
 
pt. 1. Storing and recuperating knowledge -- The art of memory in practice -- Writing the memory of the virtues and vices in Johannes Sintram's (d. 1450) preaching aids / Kimberly Rivers -- Memory, meditation, and preaching : a fifteenth-century memory machine in Central Europe (the text Nota hanc figuram composuerunt doctores ... /Pro aliquali intelligentia ...) / Farkas Gábor Kiss -- The staging of memory : ars memorativa and the spectacle of imagination in late medieval preaching in Poland / Rafał Wójcik -- On mistake and meaning : scinderationes fonorum in medieval artes memoriae, mnemonic verses, and manuscripts / Lucie Doležalová -- Mnemonic aids -- The verse Bible as aide-mémoire / Greti Dinkova-Bruun -- Exhibete membra vestra : verbal and visual enthymeme as late medieval mnemotechnics / Laura Iseppi De Filippis -- The late medieval summa Iovis as a case study for the use of poems as mnemonic aids / Rüdiger Lorenz -- Pseudo-apocryphal dialogue as a tool for the memorization of scholastic wisdom : the farewell of Christ to Mary and the Liber de vita Christi by Jacobus / Péter Tóth -- The Old Norse kenning as a mnemonic figure / Bergsveinn Birgisson.
 
pt. 2. Remembering and forgetting the past -- Literary strategies -- The landscape as a memory construction in the Latin Petrarch / Francesco Stella -- Posthumous messages : memory, romance, and the Morte d'Arthur / Jon Whitman -- "And nothing will be wasted" : actualization of the past in Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus miraculorum / Victoria Smirnova -- Social contexts -- The Latin vocabulary of memory in medieval Hungary / Előd Nemerkényi -- The construction of memory and the display of social bonds in the Life of Corpus Christi Fraternity from Sibiu Hermannstadt, Nagyszeben) / Carmen Florea -- Props of memory, triggers of narration : time and space in medieval Jewish hagiography / Lucia Raspe -- Individual versus collective memories -- Anselm of Laon in the twelfth-century schools : between fama and memoria / Cédric Giraud -- Memory and hagiography : the formation of the memory of three thirteenth-century female saints / Dávid Falvay -- Dixit quod non recordatur : memory as proof in inquisitorial trials (early fourteenth-century France) / Irene Bueno -- Forgetting -- Peasants' revolts memories : damnatio memoriae or hidden memories? / Vincent Challet -- Remembering and forgetting the Sabians : Moses Maimonides, Moses Narboni, and Eleazar Eilenburg / Tamas Visi -- Constructing the past -- The past as a precedent : crusade, reconquest, and twelfth-century memories of a Christian Iberia / William J. Purkis -- Memory of the past and Old Norse identity / Else Mundal -- In memoriam defunctorum : visual arts as devices of memory / Elena Bartlová.

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Subject Term
Civilization, Medieval.
 
Middle Ages.
 
Memory -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
 
Collective memory -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
 
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
 
Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500.

Geographic Term
Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492.
 
Europe -- Intellectual life.
 
Europe -- Social life and customs.

Added Author
Doležalová, Lucie.

Format
Electronic Resources

Electronic Access
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Publication Date
2010

Publication Information
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.


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