Negotiating Heritage
Memories of the Middle Ages
Edited by Mette B Bruun Edited by Stephanie Glaser
An important new study of the issue of memory in the medieval period and beyond.
A key impulse of cultural transmission is engaging with the past for the benefit of the present. In seventeen essays on subjects that range from Paschasius Radbertus to Orhan Pamuk, the Regularis Concordia to Kurt Weill, and from Augustine to Adorno, Negotiating Heritage examines specific historical case-studies that reveal the appropriation, modification, or repudiation of a legacy. The overall focus of this interdisciplinary volume is memory: medieval conceptions of memory, resonances of the Middle Ages in later periods, and memory as a heuristic methodological device. Through tokens or other vestiges of the past – the physical memorial of a tomb, the ritualized retention of past acts or structures, the reverberations of a doctrinal, literary, musical, or iconographic topos, or the symbolic reminiscences of a past ideal – memory acts as the manifestation of something absent. This anthology studies such tokens in a way that provides a fruitful new perspective for the field of research into memory, and explores the methodological dimension of issues of heritage, genealogy, and tradition. Furthermore, Negotiating Heritage also probes the reception and construction of the Middle Ages in later periods, exploring the shifting territory of the meaning of the medieval itself. In its movement between medievalism and the medieval period, Negotiating Heritage is an important and scholarly contribution to both established and emerging trends in critical thought.
- Edited by Mette B Bruun
- Edited by Stephanie Glaser
Other Titles in this Series
Medieval Ritual and Early Modern Music
The Devotional Practice of Lauda Singing in Late-Renaissance Italy
Volume 1
The Medieval Cathedral of Trondheim
Architectural and Ritual Constructions in their European Context
Volume 3
Music, Liturgy, and the Veneration of Saints of the Medieval Irish Church in a European Context
Volume 8
The Idea of the Gothic Cathedral
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Meanings of the Medieval Edifice in the Modern Period
Volume 9
Ritual and Art across the Danish Reformation
Changing Interiors of Village Churches, 1450-1600
Volume 6
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