A Cultural History of Memory in the Middle Ages

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 in the Middle Ages explores memory in the years 500-1450. 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 Middle Ages is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on memory in the Medieval era.

Gerald Schwedler is Professor of Medieval History at the Christian-Albrechts University of
Kiel, Germany. His research areas include medieval historiography, memory culture and economic history. He has published various books and articles on medieval strategies of memory and forgetting (Damnatio in memoria, 2014; Damnatio memoriae, 2020). He currently works on cultural inflation and imitation in the Middle Ages (Nachahmen im Mittelalter, 2018) as well as medieval patterns to deal with cultural degeneration (Exzerpieren – Kompilieren – Tradieren, 2017).