Creative Selection between Emending and Forming Medieval Memory
(eBook)
Contributors
Blennemann, Gordon, Contributor
Depreux, Philippe, Contributor
Eber, Michael, Contributor
Esders, Stefan, Contributor
Ganz, David, Contributor
Depreux, Philippe, Contributor
Eber, Michael, Contributor
Esders, Stefan, Contributor
Ganz, David, Contributor
Published
Berlin ; De Gruyter,, [2021].
Format
eBook
ISBN
9783110757279
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Language
English
UPC
10.1515/9783110757279
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Description
Karl Valentin once asked: "How can it be that only as much happens as fits into the newspaper the next day?" He focussed on the problem that information of the past has to be organised, arranged and above all: selected and put into form in order to be perceived as a whole. In this sense, the process of selection must be seen as the fundamental moment - the "Urszene" - of making History. This book shows selection as highly creative act. With the richness of early medieval material it can be demonstrated that creative selection was omnipresent and took place even in unexpected text genres.The book demonstrates the variety how premodern authors dealt with "unimportant", unpleasant or unwanted past. It provides a general overview for regions and text genres in early medieval Europe.
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Issued also in print.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
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In English.