Forgery and memory at the end of the first millennium / Levi Roach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roach, Levi, 1985- author.

Series:

Princeton scholarship online.

Princeton scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Medieval.

Europe--History--To 1500.

Europe.

Europe--Politics and government--476-1492.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford, England : Princeton University Press, [2021]

Summary:

This text takes a fresh look at documentary forgery and historical memory in the Middle Ages. In the tenth and eleventh centuries, religious houses across Europe began falsifying texts to improve local documentary records on an unprecedented scale. As the book illustrates, the resulting wave of forgery signaled major shifts in society and political culture, shifts which would lay the foundations for the European ancien régime. Spanning documentary traditions across France, England, Germany and northern Italy, the book examines five sets of falsified texts to demonstrate how forged records produced in this period gave voice to new collective identities within and beyond the Church. Above all, the book indicates how this fad for falsification points to new attitudes toward past and present - a developing fascination with the signs of antiquity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Maps, Tables and Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Note on Style and Citations

Abbreviations

Preface

Forgery and memory at the end of the first millennium

Introduction Forgery and Memory in an Age of Iron

Chapter 1 Forgery in the Chancery? Bishop Anno at Worms

Chapter 2 Forging Episcopal Identity: Pilgrim at Passau

Chapter 3 Forging Liberty: Abingdon and Æthelred

Chapter 4 Forging Exemption: Fleury from Abbo to William

Chapter 5 True Lies: Leo of Vercelli and the Struggle for Piedmont

Conclusions

Bibliography

General Index

Index of Royal and Papal Charters

A note on the type

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 10, 2021).

Also issued in print: 2021.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0691181667

9780691181660

9780691217871

0691217874

OCLC:

1230459296