Social Memory in Late Medieval England Village Life and Proofs of Age /

• Main Author: Rosenthal, Joel T. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: The New Middle Ages
• Subjects: Literature, Medieval.; British literature.; Europe-History-476-1492.; Medieval Literature.; British and Irish Literature.; History of Medieval Europe.

This concise and unique volume explores the vital relationship between testimony, memory, and the community in medieval society. Joel T. Rosenthal assembles various categories of testimonies to illuminate how "ordinary" Late Medieval people saw themselves as units of their community, their...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Proofs of Age: The What and the Why
• 3 The Theater of Baptism: A Drama of Many Acts
• 4 Life in the Village: Good News and Bad
• 5 More Scenes from Village Life
• 6 Life Beyond the Village
• 7 Memory Is A Strange Country.