Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-12-17
Mått147 x 223 x 28 mm
Vikt620 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor422
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198744764

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Karl Galinsky is not a scholar to embrace such rigid or facile dichotomies. In a lifetime of scholarship on Augustus, classical reception, and now, on social memory, Galinsky has consistently and vocally advocated the need to tear down conceptual walls ... This book succeeds in telling a powerful story ... anyone who values dialogue -- between science and the humanities, classics and religious studies, or among people of faith learning more about their own religious traditions -- will recognize its implication: memories that have been acquired through learned behavior can, with some difficulty, be unlearned, too.