Memory in early modern Europe, 1500-1800 / Judith Pollmann.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Pollmann, Judith, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Memory--Europe--History--16th century.
• Memory--Europe--History--17th century.
• Memory--Europe--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

In early modern Europe, memory of the past served as a main frame of moral, political, legal, religious, and social reference for people of all walks of life. This volume examines how Europeans practiced memory between 1500 and 1800, and how these three centuries saw a shift in how people engaged with the past.

Contents:

• Scripting the self
• Past and present : the virtues of anachronism
• Customizing the past
• Imagining communities
• Living legends : myth, memory, and authenticity
• Acts of oblivion
• Remembering violence : trauma, atrocities, and cosmopolitan memories.

Notes:

• This edition previously issued in print: 2017.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 19, 2017).

ISBN:

• 0-19-251815-1
• 0-19-183899-3