Rewriting Saints and Ancestors: Memory and Forgetting in France, 500-1200 by Constance Brittain Bouchard

Middle Ages

Rewriting Saints and Ancestors: Memory and Forgetting in France, 500-1200

Constance Brittain Bouchard

362 pages hardcover

1 edition

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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Thinkers in medieval France constantly reconceptualized what had come before, interpreting past events to give validity to the present and help control the future. The long-dead saints who presided over churches and the ancestors of established dy...

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