Memory and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World

Roman Bleier

ISBN 10: 1788744705 / ISBN 13: 9781788744706

Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Mär 2022, 2022

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Neuware -In both past and modern societies the concepts of memory and identity have been inextricably intertwined. Memory, through its power of recollection and reflection, is perceived as a central and necessary pathway for self-discovery, self-expression, and self-knowledge crucial to an understanding of the physical and spiritual world. Memory, in this way, becomes fundamental to identity itself, as it is through the complex process of both group and individual recollection and commemoration that cultural, political, national, religious, and gender identities are not only imagined but constructed, reconstructed, and represented.Taking as its focus this complex interplay of memory and identity in the medieval and early modern European context, this volume of essays presents its findings under five thematic headings: ««The Poetics of Memory and Heroic Identity», «Cultural Memory and National Identities», «Emotional Identities», «Nota Bene: The Craft of Memory and Corrective Instruction» and «Memorialising Protestant Identities in Early Modern England». Contributions examine constructions of memory and identity in such key works as the Old English Soliloquies; the Old Norse kings¿ sagas Morkinskinna and Heimskringla; medieval Serbian hagiographies; Havelok the Dane; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Chaucer¿s Book of the Duchess, Troilus and Criseyde and Adam Scriveyn; Elizabethan translations of the Psalms; John Stearne¿s Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft; seventeenth-century portraiture. The research presented here offers valuable insights into the centrality of memory to medieval and early modern constructions of political, religious, and national identities and points up future avenues for scholarly investigation.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 274 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Memory and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World
• Publisher: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Mär 2022
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788744705
• ISBN 13: 9781788744706
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 15D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 15 millimeters depth
• Weight: 402 grams

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Synopsis

In both past and modern societies the concepts of memory and identity have been inextricably intertwined. Memory, through its power of recollection and reflection, is perceived as a central and necessary pathway for self-discovery, self-expression, and self-knowledge crucial to an understanding of the physical and spiritual world. Memory, in this way, becomes fundamental to identity itself, as it is through the complex process of both group and individual recollection and commemoration that cultural, political, national, religious, and gender identities are not only imagined but constructed, reconstructed, and represented.

Taking as its focus this complex interplay of memory and identity in the medieval and early modern European context, this volume of essays presents its findings under five thematic headings: ««The Poetics of Memory and Heroic Identity», «Cultural Memory and National Identities», «Emotional Identities», «Nota Bene: The Craft of Memory and Corrective Instruction» and «Memorialising Protestant Identities in Early Modern England». Contributions examine constructions of memory and identity in such key works as the Old English Soliloquies; the Old Norse kings’ sagas Morkinskinna and Heimskringla; medieval Serbian hagiographies; Havelok the Dane; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess, Troilus and Criseyde and Adam Scriveyn; Elizabethan translations of the Psalms; John Stearne’s Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft; seventeenth-century portraiture. The research presented here offers valuable insights into the centrality of memory to medieval and early modern constructions of political, religious, and national identities and points up future avenues for scholarly investigation.

About the Author

Roman Bleier, who holds a PhD in Digital Arts and Humanities from the Department of History, Trinity College Dublin, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Information Modelling–Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Graz. His research interests include digital scholarly editing and digital history.

Brian Coleman is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and a former Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar. His doctoral thesis focused on office and society in late medieval Ireland.

Clare Fletcher holds a PhD in Medieval Literature from the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, where she is currently teaching. A former Trinity College Postgraduate Scholar, her research interests lie mainly in late fourteenth-century English poetry and she has published on both Chaucer and Gower.