How has understanding of memory evolved over the past 2,500 years? How has our collective memory been influenced and expressed by politics, culture, philosophy and science? In a work that spans over 2,500 years, these ambitious questions are addressed by 64 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. The volumes situate our understanding of memory within a variety of historical contexts, looking to art and science alike to determine how it has changed in Western society since Antiquity.
Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six.
The six volumes cover: 1. – Antiquity (800 BCE - 500 CE); 2. – Middle Ages (500 - 1450); 3. – Early Modern Age (1450 - 1700) ; 4. – Eighteenth Century (1700 - 1800); 5. – Nineteenth Century (1800 - 1900); 6. – Long Twentieth Century (1900 – 2000+).
Themes (and chapter titles) are: politics; time and space; media and technology; science and education; philosophy; religion and history; high culture and popular culture; society; remembering and forgetting.
The page extent is approximately 1,728 pp with c. 300 illustrations. Each volume opens with notes on contributors, a series preface and an introduction, and concludes with notes, bibliography and an index.
The Cultural Histories Series
A Cultural History of Memory is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully-searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com). Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available in print or digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com .
How has understanding of memory evolved over the past 2,500 years? How has our collective memory been influenced and expressed by politics, culture, philosophy and science? In a work that spans over 2,500 years, these ambitious questions are addressed by 64 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. The volumes situate our understanding of memory within a variety of historical contexts, looking to art and science alike to determine how it has changed in Western society since Antiquity.
Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six.
The six volumes cover: 1. – Antiquity (800 BCE - 500 CE); 2. – Middle Ages (500 - 1450); 3. – Early Modern Age (1450 - 1700) ; 4. – Eighteenth Century (1700 - 1800); 5. – Nineteenth Century (1800 - 1900); 6. – Long Twentieth Century (1900 – 2000+).
Themes (and chapter titles) are: politics; time and space; media and technology; science and education; philosophy; religion and history; high culture and popular culture; society; remembering and forgetting.
The page extent is approximately 1,728 pp with c. 300 illustrations. Each volume opens with notes on contributors, a series preface and an introduction, and concludes with notes, bibliography and an index.
The Cultural Histories Series
A Cultural History of Memory is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully-searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com). Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available in print or digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com .
Volume 1: A Cultural History of Memory in Antiquity
Edited by Beate Dignas (University of Oxford, UK)
1. Power and Politics, Boris Chrubasik
2. Time and Space, Ilaria Bultrighini and Stéphane Benoist
3. Media and Technology, Elena Franchi
4. Knowledge: Science and Education, Hans Baltussen
5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History, Luca Castagnoli
6. High Culture and Popular Culture, Anne Gangloff
7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday, Beate
Dignas
8. Remembering and Forgetting, Elizabeth Minchin
Volume 2: A Cultural History of Memory in the Middle
Ages
Edited by Gerald Schwedler (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
1. Power and Politics, Jean-Maire Moeglin
2. Time and Space, Joel T. Rosenthal
3. Media and Technology, Anna Adamska
4. Knowledge: Science and Education, Lucie Doležalová and Tamás
Visi
5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History, Farkas Gábor Kiss
6. High Culture and Popular Culture, Caroline Horch
7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday, Rainer
Hugener
8. Remembering and Forgetting, Kai-Michael Sprenger and Gerald
Schwedler
Volume 3: A Cultural History of Memory in the Early Modern
Age
Edited by Marek Tamm (Tallinn University, Estonia) and Alessandro
Arcangeli (University of Verona, Italy)
1. Power and Politics, Jasper van der Steen
2. Time and Space, Katharine Hodgkin
3. Media and Technology, Richard Yeo
4. Knowledge: Science and Education, William E. Engel
5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History, Patricia Emison
6. High Culture and Popular Culture, Nicola Whyte
7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday, Peter
Burke
8. Remembering and Forgetting, Peter Sherlock
Volume 4: A Cultural History of Memory in the Eighteenth
Century
Edited by Patrick Hutton (University of Vermont, USA)
1. Power and Politics, Kirsten L. Cooper
2. Time and Space, Gabriel Wick
3. Media and Technology, Patrick H. Hutton
4. Knowledge: Science and Education, Tom Simone
5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History, Patrick H. Hutton
6. High Culture and Popular Culture, Fiona McIntosh-Varjabédian
7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday, Jennifer
Hillman
8. Remembering and Forgetting, Victoria E. Thompson
Volume 5: A Cultural History of Memory in the Nineteenth
Century
Edited by Susan A. Crane (University of Arizona, USA)
1. Power and Politics, Matt Matsuda
2. Time and Space, Nick Yablon
3. Media and Technology, Elizabeth Edwards
4. Knowledge: Science and Education, Thomas Dodman
5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History, Stan M. Landry
6. High Culture and Popular Culture, Kathrin Maurer
7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday, Cecilia
Morgan
8. Remembering and Forgetting, Stéphane Gerson
Volume 6: A Cultural History of Memory in the Long Twentieth
Century
Edited by Stefan Berger (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) and Bill
Niven (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
1. Power and Politics, Jay Winter
2. Time and Space, Chris Lorenz
3. Media and Technology, Wulf Kansteiner
4. Knowledge: Science and Education, Nick Tosh
5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History, Stefan Berger
6. High Culture and Popular Culture, Patrick Finney
7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday, Jeffrey
Olick
8. Remembering and Forgetting, William Niven
Examines 2,500 years of memory from a variety of perspectives in social and cultural history.
Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director
of the Institute of Social Movements and the House for the History
of the Ruhr at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He is the
author of numerous books, including Nationalizing the Past (2015)
and Germany: Inventing the Nation (2004) and the editor of A
Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe: 1789-1914 (2009). He is,
along with Kevin Passmore and Heiko Feldner, one of the Series
Editors for Bloomsbury’s successful student book series, Writing
History.
Jeffrey K. Olick is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of
Sociology and at the University of Virginia, USA. He is the author
of In the House of the Hangman: The Agonies of German Defeat,
1943-1949 (2005) and The Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory
and Historical Responsibility (2007). He is also the editor of
States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in
National Retrospection (2003).
Much could be said about any of the books in this landmark series,
whose sum total of chapters from the world’s leading scholars will
be read and referenced for generations … Delighting in every
memory-inspired flight, fanciful or real, examined in these books
awaits the studious reader.
*Sun News Tucson*
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