Memories Lost in the Middle Ages. Collective Forgetting as an Alternative Procedure of Social Cohesion. L'oubli collectif au Moyen ge. Un autre processus constitutif de la coh sion sociale

Hardback, 362 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:32 b/w, 2 tables b/w., Language(s):English, French. ISBN 9782503596938. Summary The aim of this book is to examine the social, political and cultural consequences of 'collective forgetting' in the Middle Ages. Since the seminal work of Maurice Halbwachs, historical research has focused on 'collective memory' as the basis of social cohesion. Jan Assmann has introduced the slightly different concept of 'cultural memory', which he sees as a constitutive condition of political organisations and their stabilisation. Drawing on this Assmannian concept, this book examines this other process of 'collective forgetting'. Cet ouvrage ambitionne d'examiner les cons quences sociales, politiques et culturelles de l'oubli collectif au Moyen ge. Depuis les tudes fondatrices de Maurice Halbwachs, la recherche historique s'est int ress e la m moire collective en tant que fondement de la coh sion sociale. Jan Assmann a introduit le concept l g rement diff rent de m moire culturelle , condition constitutive selon lui des organisations politiques et de leur stabilisation. Tout en s'appuyant sur ce concept assmannien, cet ouvrage propose d' tudier cet autre processus que constitue l'oubli collectif . TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction. Memories Lost in the Middle Ages. Collective Oblivion as an Alternative Process to Ensure Social Cohesion Hans-Joachim Schmidt 1. Lost Memories. An Approach by Neurological Science Karen G. Langer and Julien Bogousslavsky 2. La politique d'effacement des crimes dans le cadre des syst mes dictatoriaux?: propos de la fonction du pacte d n gatif entourant la disparition forc e de personnes Muriel Katz, Manon Bourguignon et Alice Dermitzel 3. Contested Memories - Aspects of Collective Remembering and Forgetting Dietmar J. Wetzel 4. L'oubli au Moyen ge. S lection, transformation et rejet du pass Gerald Schwedler 5. Fragments of Antiquity in Medieval Processes of Oblivion Lukas Clemens 6. Po tique de l'oubli Nicolas Reveyron 7. The King of Sicily's Testaments - Hidden, Falsified and Forgotten Hans-Joachim Schmidt 8. Records and oblivion: strategies and events of cancellation of the documentary memory (some example, late medieval Italy) Isabella Lazzarini 9. Oubli collectif et renouveau intellectuel. Impacts de la Ratio studiorum j suite Olivier Ribordy 10. Appropriation et effacement : la chapelle du ch?ur du pape Sixte IV dans l'ancienne glise Saint-Pierre Antonella Ballardini 11. Collecting and Drawing against Oblivion. Panvinio, Ceccarelli and Chac n and their Search for the Genealogical-Heraldic Identity of the Families of Rome Andreas Rehberg 12. The Poverty of 'Civism' Martial Staub Conclusion L' ?oubli collectif? ?: un nouveau paradigme pour la recherche en histoire?? No lle-Laetitia Perret 0 g.…