Althoff Gerd, Fried Johannes, Geary Patrick J. (eds.). Medieval Concepts of the Past: Ritual, Memory, Historiography

Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 368 p.Medieval Concepts of the Past demonstrates how the history of the Middle Ages is being reshaped by leading medieval historians in Germany and the United States in light of cultural and social-scientific investigations into ritual, language, and memory. These two national traditions of medieval scholarship, which have been largely separated over the course of the twentieth century, are drawing closer together through a common interest in issues of social science and linguistic theory as applied to the representation of the past. This book marks a significant step in the reconvergence of these two historiographical traditions.Gerd Althoff is a professor of history at the University of Münster. Johannes Fried is a professor of history at the University of Frankfurt. Patrick J. Geary is a professor of history at the University of California at Los Angeles.