Memory in ancient Rome and early Christianity

by Galinsky, Karl

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Full title :Memory in ancient Rome and early Christianity / edited by Karl Galinsky.

Summary

What and how do people remember? Who controls the process of what we call cultural or social memory? What is forgotten and why? People's memories are not the same as history written in retrospect; they are malleable and an ongoing process of construction and reconstruction. Ancient Rome provided much of the cultural framework for early Christianity, and in both the role of memory was pervasive. 'Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity' presents perspectives from an international and interdisciplinary range of contributors on the literature, history, archaeology, and religion of a major world civilization, based on an informed engagement with important concepts and issues in memory studies. It offers a selective exploration of the wealth of topics which comprise memory studies, and also features a contribution from a leading neuroscientist on the actual workings of the human memory.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2016
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford, United Kingdom
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2016

The Physical Object

Description:xiv, 406 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780198744764, 0198744765, 9780191805929, 0191805920, 9780198822592, 0198822596
oclc:ocn935450039
LC Classification:BF371
Dewey Decimal:270.1

Subjects

15.51 Antiquity 30 - 600 Church history -- Primitive and early c… Church history -- Primitive and early c… Collective memory Église -- Histoire -- ca 30-600 (Église… Erinnerung Frühchristentum Kollektives Gedächtnis Literature (fiction and non fiction) Mémoire collective Mémoire dans la littérature Memory -- Religious aspects Memory -- Social aspects Memory in art Memory in literature RELIGION Religious aspects Rome -- Religion Rome (Empire)