Reading Memory In Early Modern Literature
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Reading Memory in Early Modern Literature
Author: Andrew Hiscock
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2011-10-13
Focusing on the lively debate of memory, this book maps how radical cultural and political changes shaped early modern England.
Memory's Library
Author: Jennifer Summit
language: en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date: 2008-11-15
In Jennifer Summit’s account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey’s famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, Memory’s Library revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England. Summit argues that the medieval sources that survive in English collections are the product of a Reformation and post-Reformation struggle to redefine the past by redefining the cultural place, function, and identity of libraries. By establishing the intellectual dynamism of English libraries during this crucial period of their development, Memory’s Library demonstrates how much current discussions about the future of libraries can gain by reexamining their past.
Memory in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800
Author: Judith Pollmann
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 2017-08-05
For early modern Europeans, the past was a measure of most things, good and bad. For that reason it was also hotly contested, manipulated, and far too important to be left to historians alone. Memory in Early Modern Europe offers a lively and accessible introduction to the many ways in which Europeans engaged with the past and 'practised' memory in the three centuries between 1500 and 1800. From childhood memories and local customs to war traumas and peacekeeping , it analyses how Europeans tried to control, mobilize and reconfigure memories of the past. Challenging the long-standing view that memory cultures transformed around 1800, it argues for the continued relevance of early modern memory practices in modern societies.