Memory
It has long been recognized that texts, just like cultures, usually have a past of their own. This frequently became reassessed and exploited by successive generations medieval writers, process which perhaps can best be referred to as reinscription. Reinscription represents one the crucial mechanics cultural memory, involving rewriting from present perspective. Erwin Panofsky argued for an essential difference in how such processes reinscription were executed Carolingian artists others later periods. According Panofsky, what differentiates reinscriptions those eleventh twelfth centuries, especially context so-called ‘Twelfth-Century Renaissance’, is generally seem had little motivation replace original sources they drawing upon order endow them with new contemporary meaning. What remains largely absent modes imitatio, therefore, artist's ‘effort infuse into given classical image meaning other than it invested outset’. During contrast, models increasingly adopted ways detached context, recontextualizing relocating within cultural, literary aesthetic discourses. identifies ‘principle disjunction’ pieces art also observed, significantly so, historical narratives HN.