The destruction and recovery of Monte Cassino, 529-1964:

Between the sixth and twentieth centuries, the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino (est. 529) experienced a cycle of atrocities which forever transformed its identity. This book examines how such a tumultuous history has been constructed, remembered, and represented from the Middle Ages to the presen...

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Main Author: Rennie, Kriston R. 1978- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press [2021]
Series:Italy in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages 1
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Summary:Between the sixth and twentieth centuries, the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino (est. 529) experienced a cycle of atrocities which forever transformed its identity. This book examines how such a tumultuous history has been constructed, remembered, and represented from the Middle Ages to the present day. It uses this singular and pivotal case to analyse the historical process of remembering and its impact on modern representations of the past. Exactly how Monte Cassino is remembered is distinctive and diagnostic. The abbey is recognizable today as a beacon of western civilization, culture, and learning precisely because of its 'destruction tradition' over fourteen centuries. This book asks how the abbey's fragmented past has been ideologically, politically, and culturally constituted and preserved; how its experience with destruction and suffering - and recovery and rebirth - has become incorporated into a modern narrative of progress and triumph
Item Description:Bandzählung "1" vom Buchrücken
Physical Description:246 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9789463729130

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