The Destruction and Recovery of Monte Cassino, 529-1964

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-94-6372-913-0
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 213 mm, Gewicht: 480 g

Reihe: Italy in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

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. The Destruction and Recovery of Monte Cassino, 529.1964 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rennie, Kriston R

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

List of Illustrations

Prologue: The Oak Tree

Part I: Animus and Anchor

Chapter 1 - An Enigma: The Legend of Saint Benedict

Chapter 2 - The 'Citadel of Campania': Growth and Prosperity

Part II: Rise and Fall

Chapter 3 - A Destiny Repeated: Episodes of Destruction

Chapter 4 - Floreat Semper: Rebuilding, Stone by Stone

Part III: Preservation and Valorization

Chapter 5 - The People's Patrimony: Defining Historical Value

Chapter 6 - A New Europe: Erasing the Destruction

Epilogue: Lighthouse

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rennie, Kriston R
Kriston R. Rennie is Dean, Faculty of Indigenous Studies, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Northern British Columbia.