Damnatio mermoriae or creatio memoriae? Memory sanctions as creative processes in the fourth century AD
Damnatio memoriae, the ill-defined group of processes that we often now refer to by the term ‘memory sanctions’, is generally thought of in wholly negative terms. It is imagined as a process of destruction, of erasure, and of silence. Yet these complex assaults on the memory of fallen enemies were f...
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Cambridge University Press
2016
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