{"product_id":"memory-and-identity-in-the-medieval-and-early-modern-world","title":"Memory and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn both past and modern societies the concepts of memory and identity have been inextricably intertwined. Memory, through its power of recollection and reflection, is perceived as a central and necessary pathway for self-discovery, self-expression, and self-knowledge crucial to an understanding of the physical and spiritual world. Memory, in this way, becomes fundamental to identity itself, as it is through the complex process of both group and individual recollection and commemoration that cultural, political, national, religious, and gender identities are not only imagined but constructed, reconstructed, and represented.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaking as its focus this complex interplay of memory and identity in the medieval and early modern European context, this volume of essays presents its findings under five thematic headings: ««The Poetics of Memory and Heroic Identity», «Cultural Memory and National Identities», «Emotional Identities», «\u003ci\u003eNota Bene\u003c\/i\u003e: The Craft of Memory and Corrective Instruction» and «Memorialising Protestant Identities in Early Modern England». Contributions examine constructions of memory and identity in such key works as the \u003ci\u003eOld English Soliloquies\u003c\/i\u003e; the Old Norse kings’ sagas \u003ci\u003eMorkinskinna \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHeimskringla; \u003c\/i\u003emedieval Serbian hagiographies; \u003ci\u003eHavelok the Dane\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight\u003c\/i\u003e; Chaucer’s \u003ci\u003eBook of the Duchess, Troilus and Criseyde \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAdam Scriveyn\u003c\/i\u003e; Elizabethan translations of the Psalms; John Stearne’s \u003ci\u003eConfirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft\u003c\/i\u003e; seventeenth-century portraiture. The research presented here offers valuable insights into the centrality of memory to medieval and early modern constructions of political, religious, and national identities and points up future avenues for scholarly investigation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang International Academic Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54225344758104,"sku":"9781788744706","price":61.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781788744706_d4d7c709-3e13-4018-abc1-61e0a1ce611b.jpg?v=1777092313","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/memory-and-identity-in-the-medieval-and-early-modern-world","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}