The Text and the World
The Henryków Book, Its Authors, and their Region, 1160-1310
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 2 July 2015
- ISBN 9780199688791
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 240x162x26 mm
- Weight 650 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A study of an exceptionally interesting primary source - the Henryk--w Book - and of the local and regional world which that source reflected and helped shape. This volume mines the Henryk--w Book for the information it provides about the social, political, religious, and literary contexts of medieval Europe.
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The Text and the World is a study of an exceptionally interesting primary source - the Henryk--w Book - and of the local and regional world which that source reflected and helped shape. The source is a history of the Cistercian monastery in Henryk--w, about forty kilometers to the south of Wroclaw, in the duchy of Silesia, produced in the monastery in two sections-one completed soon after 1268, the other soon after 1310-and redacted into a single codex in the second or third decade of the fourteenth century. The earlier part of the Book is the work of Peter, the third abbot of the monastery, while the continuation was written by an anonymous monk at the same community, possibly a later abbot by the same name.
The Henryk--w Book offers an exceptionally rich introduction to a number of subjects currently of major interest to medieval historians. It is interesting as a literary work, as an instance of forensic rhetoric, and as a type of legal argument; as an instance of biography and (implicit) autobiography. It draws on and is an example of the relationship between memory and writing, and acts as a record of lordship, power, economy, the law, social groups, communities, and institutions, in the local and regional world of the time. The Text and the World explores each of these major subjects, contextualized with the Henryk--w Book's contemporary diplomatic evidence.
There is much that can be learned from this book. In the first instance, it is a lesson in how to do micro-history or local history; any postgraduate looking to write a dissertation on local social or economic history, or a history of a single landowners estates, or a history of an individual monastery, ought to include this book as a part of an essential library of methodological approaches to such an undertaking ... G--recki succeeds magnificently in providing us with a history of a European monastic institution that can serve as an example of European history within a larger, overarching framework that encompasses many regions of Europe east and west; and while I must reiterate my hope that he will also provide us with more on that overarching framework, this book is in itself already an outstanding achievement.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part One: The Text
In Search of the Authors
The Past as a Legal Resource
Writing, Memory, and Knowledge
Communities of Memory and Knowledge
Part Two: The World
Gathering the Monastic Estate
The World of Abbot Peter
The Long Thirteenth Century: The World of Peter's Continuator
The Long Thirteenth Century: Peasants and Townspeople Transformed
The Text and the World
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