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Who, exactly, was responsible for the preservation of knowledge about the past? How did people preserve their recollections and pass them on to the next generat

This book is an analysis of thinking, remembering and reminiscing according to ancient authors, and their medieval readers. The author argues that behind the va

"A volume that will interest a wide spectrum of readers."—Patrick Geary, University of California, Los Angeles

In Jennifer Summit’s account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and us

Remembering the past in the Middle Ages is a subject that is usually perceived as a study of chronicles and annals written by monks in monasteries. Following in