Constance Brittain Bouchard.Rewriting Saints and Ancestors: Memory and Forgetting in France, 500–1200.
Jamie Kreiner
The early Middle Ages is a challenging period to study not only because, like many historical periods, it different from the present. It also tough because historians have been working on for about fifteen hundred years, filtering and interpreting evidence handing curated version after future. Historiography has likened standing shoulders of giants. But those giants happen be full-time landscapers: they are showing us vista that deeply transformed. So when began focus how medieval societies remade their histories (a “turn” in earnest 1980s), was boutique or self-involved curiosity. Instead, these history constituted serious effort measure what possible know sources nineteenth most twentieth century had, alternating measure, condemned as worthless accepted without hesitation factual.
The American Historical Review