Memories Lost in the Middle Ages: Collective Forgetting As an Alternative Procedure of Social Cohesion: Loubli Collectif Au Moyen Age. Un Autre Processus Constitutif de la Cohesion Sociale

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’. Introduction. Memories Lost in the Middle Ages. Collective Oblivion as an Alternative Process to Ensure Social Cohesion. Hans-Joachim Schmidt Lost Memories. An Approach by Neurological Science. Karen G. Langer and Julien Bogousslavsky La politique d’effacement des crimes dans le cadre des systèmes dictatoriaux. À propos de la fonction du pacte dénégatif entourant la disparition forcée de personnes. Muriel Katz, Manon Bourguignon et Alice Dermitzel Contested Memories. Aspects of Collective Remembering and Forgetting. Dietmar J. Wetzel L’oubli au Moyen Âge. Sélection, transformation et rejet du passé. Gerald Schwedler Fragments of Antiquity in Medieval Processes of Oblivion. Lukas Clemens Poétique de l’oubli. Nicolas Reveyron The King of Sicily’s Testaments. Hidden, Falsified and Forgotten. Hans-Joachim Schmidt Records and Oblivion. Strategies and Events of Cancellation of the Documentary Memory (Some Example, Late Medieval Italy). Isabella Lazzarini Oubli collectif et renouveau intellectuel. Impacts de la Ratio studiorum jésuite. Olivier Ribordy Appropriation et effacement. La chapelle du chœur du pape Sixte IV dans l’ancienne église Saint-Pierre. Antonella Ballardini Collecting and Drawing against Oblivion. Panvinio, Ceccarelli and Chacón and their Search for the Genealogical-Heraldic Identity of the Families of Rome. Andreas Rehberg The Poverty of ‘Civism’. Martial Staub Conclusion. L’ « oubli collectif » : un nouveau paradigme pour la recherche en histoire ? Noëlle-Laetitia Perret Biographies des auteurs