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
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
