Title The text and the world : the Henryków book, its authors, and their region, 1160-1310 / Piotr Górecki

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover; The Text and the World: The Henryków Book, Its Authors, and their Region, 1160-1310; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; THE SOURCE, THIS BOOK, AND RELATED WORK; APPROACH AND STRUCTURE; LIMITATIONS: WHAT THIS BOOK IS NOT; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; PART I: THE TEXT; 1: In Search of the Authors; THE HENRYKÓW BOOK; GENRE; BIOGRAPHY: A SUBJECT AND A FRAMEWORK; THE SUBJECT FRAMED; 2: The Past as a Legal Resource; THE HENRYKÓW BOOK AS A WORK OF PERSUASION; BIOGRAPHY AND THE CONTESTATION OF THE PAST; RHETORIC REVISITED: ALTERNATIVE VIEWS OF THE MONASTERY'S FOUNDATION THE LIMITS OF RHETORICAL PERSUASIONPERSUASION ABANDONED?; 3: Writing, Memory, and Knowledge; MODES OF TRANSMISSION OF AUTHORITATIVE KNOWLEDGE; ABBOT PETER'S CONTINUATOR ON THE SUBJECT OF WRITING; CHARTERS; WRITING ABOUT WRITING; BEYOND THE CHARTER: NEW GENRES OF WRITING; 4: Communities of Memory and Knowledge; SOURCES OF ORAL AND REMEMBERED KNOWLEDGE: AN OVERVIEW; WITNESS LISTS AND COMMUNITIES; FACILITATORS; PART II: THE WORLD; 5: Gathering the Monastic Estate; THE LOCAL WORLDS OF THE HENRYKÓW MONASTERY; COMPACTING LOCALITIES; COMPACTING TITHE REVENUES THE COMPACTED ESTATE: THE PROBLEM OF WEALTH AND POVERTYTHE COMPACTED ESTATE AS A NETWORK; FOREST, ARABLE, AND PEOPLE; URBAN REVENUES; 6: The World of Abbot Peter; PEOPLE AND PLACES IN THE HENRYKÓW BOOK: AN OVERVIEW; ABBOT PETER'S EARLIEST PAST: THE ORIGINATING ACTORS; ABBOT PETER'S EARLIEST PAST: TRAUMA AND TRANSITION; THE MONASTERY'S FIRST TWO YEARS: NEGOTIATIONS AND CONTESTATIONS; TOWARD PETER'S PRESENT: ESCALATIONS OF CONFLICT; TOWARD PETER'S PRESENT: RESOLUTIONS OF CONFLICT; CONFLICT RESOLVED?; CONTESTATIONS OF POWER; 7: The Long Thirteenth Century: The World of Peter's Continuator ANCHORING CONTEXTS, FRAGMENTED LIVESRHYTHMS OF ACQUISITION, DISTINCTIVE CIRCUMSTANCES; RECURRENT ELEMENTS OF THE CONTINUATOR'S WORLD: THINGS AND PEOPLE; RECURRENT ELEMENTS OF THE CONTINUATOR'S WORLD: SERVICE AND 'LIBERTY'; LAND TRANSACTIONS AND PROTAGONISTS; MILLS; TWO VERNACULARS; SERVICE: CONTINUITIES AND TRANSFORMATIONS; THE FIEF; 8: The Long Thirteenth Century: Peasants and Townspeople Transformed; THE GREAT CONTEXT: AGRARIAN AND URBAN TRANSITION; RURAL EXPANSION; PEASANTS; AN URBAN WORLD?; BACK TO HENRYKÓW: MÜNSTERBERG; BACK TO HENRYKÓW: CLOSURES; PEOPLE, PLACES, POWER 9: The Text and the WorldTRANSITION; THE PART AND THE WHOLE; THE WORLD; Bibliography; Index Summary In this study of an exceptionally interesting primary source - the 'Henryków Book' - and the local and regional world which it reflected and helped shape, Piotr Górecki mines the text for the information it provides about the social, political, religious and literary contexts of medieval Europe Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index SUBJECT Liber fundationis Claustri Sancte Marie Virginis in Heinrichow. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88092123 Liber fundationis Claustri Sancte Marie Virginis in Heinrichow fast Subject Church lands -- Poland -- Henryków (Województwo Dolnośląskie) -- History -- To 1500 Church lands -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 Church lands Henryków (Województwo Dolnośląskie, Poland) -- History -- To 1500 Europe -- History -- To 1500 Europe Poland -- Henryków (Województwo Dolnośląskie) Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191767975 0191767972 9780191002601 0191002607

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