How the past was used: historical cultures c. 750–2000, proceedings of the British Academy, volume 207

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Notes

1. See, for example, Wood, The Memory of the People; Alexandra Walsham, “Recycling the Sacred, 1121–1154; Idem, “Relics, Writing, and Memory in the English Counter Reformation”, 77–105.

2. This book is composed of the following: Introduction, Peter Lambert & Björn Weiler (p. 1); I. What is Historical Culture?, Peter Lambert (p. 6); II. Themes in Historical Culture, Björn Weiler (p. 16); 1: Imagining Rome in Medieval Constantinople: Memory, Politics, and the Past in the Middle Byzantine Period, Dimitris Krallis (p. 49); 2: The Present and the Past in the Sagas of Icelanders, Haki Antonsson (p. 69); 3: Monastic Historical Culture and the Utility of a Remote Past: The Case of Matthew Paris, Björn Weiler (p. 91); 4: Legend and Historical Experience in Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Narratives of the Past, Dimitri Kastritsis (p. 121); 5: The Chronicler and the Count: Law, Libel, and History in the Early Modern Atlantic World, Richard Kagan (p. 141); 6: The Poetry of History in Early Modern India, Allison Busch (p.161); 7: The Immediacy of a Remote Past: The Saxon Wars of 772–804 in the ‘Cultural Struggles’ of the Third Reich, Peter Lambert (p. 181); 8: Ancient Past, Modern Ceremony: Thailand’s Royal Barge Procession in Historical Context, Matthew Phillips (p. 201); 9: La Rosca de Investigación y Acción Social: Reimagining History as Collaborative Exchange in 1970s Colombia, Joanne Rappaport (p. 231);10: Chinese History as a Constructed Continuity: The Work of Rao Zongyi, T.H. Barrett (p. 259); 11: Memory as Theatre: Using a Ghanaian Ritual to Recall Past Greatness and to Redress Recent Reverses, Richard Rathbone (p. 277); Conclusion: Future Directions?, Peter Lambert & Björn Weiler (p. 297).