Creative Selection between Emending and Forming Medieval Memory

Sebastian Scholz

ISBN 10: 3110756609 / ISBN 13: 9783110756609

Published by De Gruyter, DE, 2021

About this Item

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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Creative Selection between Emending and Forming Medieval Memory
• Publisher: De Gruyter, DE
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110756609
• ISBN 13: 9783110756609
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 6.69W x 0.5H x 9.61D inches 6.69 inches width by 0.5 inches height by 9.61 inches depth
• Weight: 500 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Sebastian Scholz, University of Zürich, Switzerland; Gerald Schwedler, University of Kiel, Germany.