A Cultural History of Memory in the Middle Ages

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).

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