TY - BOOK ID - 99988844 TI - Creative Selection between Emending and Forming Medieval Memory AU - Blennemann, Gordon AU - Depreux, Philippe AU - Eber, Michael AU - Esders, Stefan AU - Ganz, David AU - Geary, Patrick J. AU - Groten, Manfred AU - Kelly, Michael J. AU - Pohl, Walter AU - Reimitz, Helmut AU - Scholz, Sebastian AU - Schwedler, Gerald AU - Sonntag, Jörg AU - Stüber, Till AU - Wood, Ian PY - 2021 SN - 3110757273 3110756609 PB - Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, DB - UniCat KW - HISTORY / Medieval. KW - damnatio memoriae. KW - early middle ages. KW - historiography. KW - memory. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:99988844 AB - Karl Valentin once asked: "How can it be that only as much happens as fits into the newspaper the next day?" He focussed on the problem that information of the past has to be organised, arranged and above all: selected and put into form in order to be perceived as a whole. In this sense, the process of selection must be seen as the fundamental moment - the "Urszene" - of making History. This book shows selection as highly creative act. With the richness of early medieval material it can be demonstrated that creative selection was omnipresent and took place even in unexpected text genres.The book demonstrates the variety how premodern authors dealt with "unimportant", unpleasant or unwanted past. It provides a general overview for regions and text genres in early medieval Europe. ER -