Review of: Fentress, James and Chris Wickham: Social Memory by Gellner, D

Aged Tg2576 mice are impaired on social memory and open field habituation tests. by Deacon, R, Koros, E, Bornemann, K, Rawlins, J

“…However, in a retrospective analysis of a separate project on these mice, tests of social memory and open field habituation revealed large cognitive impairments. …”

Rioting blacksmiths and Jewish women: pillarised Reformation memory in early modern Poland by Nowakowska, N

“…In a kingdom where toleration and coexistence of churches (Lutheran, Calvinist, Catholic, anti-Trinitarian) long flourished, no unified social memory of the Reformations successfully emerged; with long-term impacts on the historiography of the European Reformation. …”

Restorative justice? Questions arising out of the Hobby Lobby return of cuneiform tablets to Iraq by Brodie, N

Writing the Gospels: composition and memory by Eve, E

“…They will also have been both informed and constrained by the social memory of the primitive Church. It is argued here that they will most likely have relied on their memory of their written sources, or at least, that it is a better working assumption that they did so than that they necessarily worked with their written sources open in front of them. …”

Languages of political identity: Visconti historiography and the making of the territorial state by Kolkey, W

“…Finally, in Piacenza, the history of Giovanni Musso is an example of how a Ghibelline social memory could be used to reframe the relationship of a city's <em>milites</em> and <em>populus</em> with the empire and Visconti. …”

Yesterday's tomorrow is not today. Memory and place in an Algiers neighbourhood by McAllister, E

“…Memories of intense social mobility and rising living standards within the context of state-led development, competent urban management and warm neighbourhood relations governed by traditional morality and solidarity were used to critique the present; particularly the retreat of the state from its responsibilities since the 1980s and the fragmented, consumerist society that has emerged from civil conflict since the 1990s.</p> <p>However, social memory also translated a series of principles that demonstrated the continued relevance of the egalitarian claims made by postcolonial nationalism. …”

The changing nature of monastic historical writing in late medieval England by Macht, JC

“…</p> <p>The historiography of historical writing and monasticism provides a contextual grounding for both parts of the study and a number of theoretical literatures inform the discussion including those on social memory and its specific application in monastic commemorative practice, and on the intersections between literary style, material form and monastic function. …”

Disguise, transformation, and revelation in middle English romances and outlaw ballads by Hunter, ML

“…Disguise narratives that portray women as exceptional perceivers aligns with other, non-literary evidence of women’s role in preserving social memory; narratives involving women in disguise intersect with medieval ideas of women as inherently deceitful, and illustrate how women exploit disguise to achieve social agency. …”

Materialising kinship, constructing relatedness: kin group display and commemoration in First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom Egypt (ca 2150–1650 BCE) by Olabarria, L

“…Possible reconstructions of such chapels – one from Saqqara and two from Abydos – are presented in chapter 4, and the impact they may have had on the social memory of visitors is assessed. Display, presence, and performance were some of the ways in which the social role of those groups was communicated. …”