
Gender and Memory in Medieval Europe
Elisabeth van Houts(Author)
University of Toronto Press
Published on 26. June 1999
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-8020-4698-7 (ISBN)
Description
Tracing the oral and written memories of families and monastic communities through chronicles, saints' lives, and material objects such as jewellery and memorial stones, Elisabeth van Houts argues that in the Middle Ages, as now, the knowledge of the past was shaped by men as well as women. Men may have dominated the pages of literature but many of the stories they wrote were told to them by women. The Norman Conquest of England in 1066 provides a case study to illustrate the ways in which one memorable event reverberated through the generations. In England and Normandy, men and women remembered their ancestors' experiences: the worst were kept alive orally for a long time before they were written down, the best were put on paper straight away.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8020-4698-7 (9780802046987)
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Elisabeth van Houts teaches Medieval History at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. She has published widely on Anglo-Norman history and medieval historiography.