TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rennie,Kriston R.
TI  - The Destruction and Recovery of Monte Cassino, 529-1964
T2  - Italy in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
SN  - 9789048552122
U1  - 271.1 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Amsterdam : 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, 
KW  - Monasticism and religious orders
KW  - History
KW  - Italy
KW  - Cassino Region
KW  - Diachronic
KW  - European history: Reformation
KW  - European history: Renaissance
KW  - European history: medieval period, middle ages
KW  - History, Art History, and Archaeology
KW  - Sociology and Social History
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Italy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Monasticism, destruction, heritage, culture, Italy
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Abbreviations --; Prologue: The Oak Tree --; Part I Animus and Anchor --; 1. An Enigma: The Legend of Saint Benedict --; 2. The ‘Citadel of Campania’: Growth and Prosperity --; Part II Rise and Fall --; 3. A Destiny Repeated: Episodes of Destruction --; 4. Floreat Semper: Rebuilding, Stone by Stone --; Part III Preservation and Valorisation --; 5. The People’s Patrimony: Defining Historical Value --; 6. A New Europe: Erasing the Destruction --; Epilogue: Lighthouse --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048552122?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048552122
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048552122/original
ER  -