Description:
A Cultural History of Memory presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of memory throughout history.
This volume, A Cultural History of Memory in the Early Modern Age, explores memory in the period from 1450 to 1700 AD. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Memory set, this volume presents essays on memory and: power and politics; time and space; media and technology; science and education; philosophy, religion and history, high culture and popular culture; rituals, faith, practices and the everyday; and remembering and forgetting. A Cultural History of Memory in the Early Modern Age is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on memory in the Renaissance.Brief description: Alessandro Arcangeli teaches early modern, Renaissance and cultural history at the University of Verona. He is the author of a reference book on historiography and method (Cultural History: A Concise Introduction, London 2012) and of specialist studies of attitudes towards dance (with particular emphasis on cultural exchange) and play (Recreation in the Renaissance, Basingstoke 2003). Passions and dreams offered some of his recent research topics. He is co-editor of collective volumes (including A Cultural History of Memory in the Early Modern Age, with M. Tamm) and book series (among others, "Cultures of Play", Amsterdam), as well as member of editorial boards (such as that of the journal Ludica).