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
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Netherlands Amsterdam University Press 2021
Series:Italy in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Subjects:
AUP Wetenschappelijk
culture
destruction
Diachronic
Europe
General history of Europe Italian Peninsula & adjacent islands
heritage
HISTORY
HISTORY / Civilization
HISTORY / Europe / Italy
HISTORY / Medieval
HISTORY / Social History
History, Art History, and Archaeology
Italy
Medieval
Monasticism
Sociology and Social History
South
c. 500 CE to c. 1000 CE
Europe
c. 1000 CE to c. 1500
Social History
South
Diachronic
History, Art History, and Archaeology
AUP Wetenschappelijk
Sociology and Social History
Social impact of disasters
Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Civilization
Medieval
Italy
European history
European history: Reformation
Monasticism, destruction, heritage, culture, Italy
HISTORY
European history: medieval period, middle ages
European history: Renaissance
Monasticism
culture
heritage
destruction
ISBN:9463729135, 9789463729130, 9048552125, 9789048552122
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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. 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.
ISBN:9463729135
9789463729130
9048552125
9789048552122
DOI:10.1515/9789048552122