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Title: Phantoms of Remembrance by Patrick J. Geary ISBN: 0-691-02603-3 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: A sophisticated discussion of the creation of "history"
Comment: I found this book to be very stimulating and very creatively framed -- perhaps a bit too creatively, in a few cases. An important addition to the growing literature on medieval narrative/memory. Recommended for specialists, although the prose is quite engaging, one often feels as if one is coming in on a private conversation among practicing medievalists.

Rating: 2
Summary: some interesting points, generally difficult to read
Comment: Perhaps the book is too specialized for me as amateur history-enthusiast (although i found this book via a recommended reading for 1st year history students). I found this book tedious and often did not have much of an idea what point the author was trying to make here. I liked his discussion of the role of women and monasteries as institutionalized memory of medieval society.

I am curious to see what others found of this book. I, for one, will not read this book again.

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