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Remembering the Dead: Collective Memory and Commemoration in Late Medieval Livonia: 5 (Memoria and Remembrance Practices) - Hardcover

Strenga, Gustavs

 
9782503591193: Remembering the Dead: Collective Memory and Commemoration in Late Medieval Livonia: 5 (Memoria and Remembrance Practices)

Synopsis

Medieval memoria - the commemoration of the dead - was both a form of collective memory and a social practice present in every sphere of life. It shaped identities and constituted groups, and thus the study of commemorative practices can tell us a great deal about medieval communities. This study shows the importance of memoria as a form of collective memory for different groups and institutions: city government and guilds, the Teutonic Order, bishops and cathedral chapters, and monastic communities, in late medieval Livonia (present-day Latvia and Estonia).

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