Select Bibliography

 

NB: This is simply a very select, representative bibliography on the subject of history and memory (some pertaining to the classical period, some to the modern period).  For bibliographies on the classical historians we’ll be reading consult, for starters, the course texts (the Penguins).

 

Assmann, J. (1997) Moses the Egyptian.  The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism.  Cambridge, MA

Blum, H. (1969) Die antike Mnemotechnik.  Hildesheim

Burke, P. (1989) 'History as Social Memory', in Memory.  History, Culture and the Mind, T. Butler (ed.), 97-113.  Blackwell

Carruthers, M. (1990) The Book of Memory.  A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture. Cambridge

Connerton, P. (1989) How Societies Remember.  Cambridge

Davis, N.Z. and Starn, R. (1989) ‘Introduction’. Representations 0.26: 1-6

Edwards, C. (1996) Writing Rome.  Cambridge

Farrell, J. (1997) 'The Phenomenology of Memory in Roman Culture', CJ 92.4: 373-83

Fentress, J. and Wickham, C. (1992) Social Memory. Blackwell

Flower, H. (1996) Ancestor masks and aristocratic power in Roman culture.  Oxford

Gedi, N. and Elam, Y. (1996) ‘Collective Memory – What is it?’, History and Memory 8.1:30-50

Halbwachs, M. (1992) On Collective Memory, trans. L.A. Coser.  Chicago

Hedrick, C.W. (2000) History and Silence.  Purge and Rehabilitation of Memory in Late Antiquity.  Austin

Hobsbawm, E. (1997) On History. New York

Holtorf, C. (2000) Monumental Past.  Diss. Wales 1998.  published electronically: http://citdpress.utsc.utoronto.ca/holtorf/2.0.html

Hutton, P. (1993) History as an Art of Memory. Hanover and London

Jaeger, M. (1997) Livy’s Written Rome.  Ann Arbor

Le Goff, J. (1992) History and Memory, trans. S. Rendall and E. Claman.  New York

Loraux, N. (1997) La cite divisée.  L’oubli dans la mémoire d’Athènes.  Paris

Lowenthal, D.  (1985) The Past is a Foreign Country.  Cambridge

McConkey, J. (ed.) (1996) The Anatomy of Memory.  An Anthology.  Oxford

Nora, P. (1984) Les Lieux de Mémoire.  Vol. 1.  Paris

Roth, M. (1994) ‘We Are What We Remember (and Forget)’, Tikkun 9.6: 41-42, 91.

(1995) The Ironist’s Cage.  Memory, Trauma, and the Construction of History.  New York

Shrimpton, G. (1997) History and Memory in Ancient Greece.  Montreal

Small, J. Penny and J. Tatum (1995) 'Memory and the Study of Classical Antiquity', Helios 22.2: 149-77

Small, J. Penny (1997)  Wax tablets of the mind: cognitive studies of memory and literacy in classical antiquity.  Routledge

Terdiman, R. (1993) Present Past.  Modernity and the Memory Crisis.  Ithaca and London

Varner, E.R. (2001) ‘Portraits, Plots, and Politics; Damnatio Memoriae and the Images of Imperial Women’, MAAR 46:41-93

Weinrich, H. (20003) Lethe.  Kunst und Kritik des Vergessens.  Munich

Wolpert, A. (2002) Remembering defeat: Civil War and civic memory in Ancient Athens.  Baltimore

Yates, F.A. (1966) The Art of Memory.  Chicago

Yoneyama, L. (1999) Hiroshima Traces.  Time, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory.  Berkeley

Young, J.  (1993) The Texture of Memory: Holocaust memorials and meaning in Europe, Israel, and America. New Haven