A Cultural History of Memory in the Early Modern Age

Marek Tamm is Professor of Cultural History and Head of the Centre of Excellence in Intercultural Studies at Tallinn University, Estonia. His primary research fields are cultural history of medieval Europe, theory and history of historiography, and cultural memory studies. He has recently published Rethinking Historical Time: New Approaches to Presentism (ed. with Laurent Olivier, Bloomsbury 2019), Juri Lotman – Culture, Memory and History: Essays in Cultural Semiotics (2019), Debating New Approaches to History (ed. with Peter Burke, Bloomsbury 2018), Afterlife of Events: Perspectives on Mnemohistory (2015), and a companion to the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier (ed. with Linda Kaljundi and Carsten Selch Jensen, Ashgate 2011). He is also the co-editor of A Cultural History of Memory in the Early Modern Age (ed. with Alessandro Arcangeli, Bloomsbury 2020).

List of Illustrations
General Editors’ Preface
Introduction
1. Power and Politics
2. Time and Space
3. Media and Technology
4. Knowledge: Science and Education
5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History
6. High Culture and Popular Culture
7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday
8. Remembering and Forgetting
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index