Memory in the Middle Ages : Approaches from Southwestern Europe.

Intro -- Contents -- 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.

With a focus on examples from southern Europe, this interdisciplinary collection explores how commonly held memories influenced the thought, identity, and status of individuals, religions, rulers, cities, and nations in the European Middle Ages.

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