Oblivion Between Orality and Textuality in the Tenth Century
Patrick J. Geary
In a recent book, I attempted to examine the means by which European communities transmitted and redefined their remembered pasts in tenth eleventh centuries. argued that period of roughly 950 1050 saw great amount “creative forgetting” as individuals communities, both lay secular, readjusted sense relationship past, creating new more useful memory through process transmission, adaptation, suppression. study concentrated primarily on written traditions examined how wide spectrum texts were restructured transformed past.
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