The Memory of Melania

Melania ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Krawiec
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Love Affair ◽  
Spiritual Director ◽  
Female Subordinate ◽  
Gender Ambiguity

Melania the Elder, the “female man of God,” performs several masculine functions throughout Palladius’s Lausiac History, even as he repeatedly defines her as female. In a work based on collective memory, she serves as a source of stories about those in the desert and as a recipient of holy relics from male monks to preserve their memory. Her prominence is particularly noticeable in her relationship with Evagrius, serving as a confessor of his love affair and as his spiritual director in sending him to Egypt. Palladius therefore creates a social memory of Melania as both female and male, making her a counter to the women associated with the ascetic writer and teacher Jerome. These women appear as extensions of the argument about gender that were part of the Origenist controversy. Jerome’s women are properly female, subordinate to male teaching, while Palladius’s Melania has a gender ambiguity.

Mnemonic Interplay: A Response to Byrskog, Bauckham, Zimmermann, and Schröter

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 173-182
Author(s):  
Anthony Le Donne
Keyword(s):  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Historical Jesus ◽  
False Dichotomy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Components

In response to the essays by Bauckham, Byrskog, Schröter, and Zimmermann concerning “memory”, Le Donne summarizes and critiques four different applications of mnemonic studies to the Jesus tradition. The author notes the different approaches to sociology relative to memory and argues that both autobiographical memory and collective memory fall under the wider category of social memory. Moreover, contra Bauckham social memory is helpful avenue of study for historical Jesus research once properly understood. Contra Schröter, he argues that the study of the social components of autobiographical memory ought to play a part in scholarship concerning the Gospels. He also challenges the false dichotomy between the “remembered Jesus” and the “historical Jesus” as posed by Zimmermann.

scholarly journals The Memory of the National and the National as Memory

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 92-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Poblete
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Centered Form ◽  
Derechos Humanos ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual

This essay seeks to illuminate a different, more encompassing kind of transition than that from dictatorship to post-dictatorship (and its attendant forms of memory of military brutal force and human rights abuses) often privileged by studies of political violence and social memory. The focus is twofold: first, to describe a transition from the world of the social to that of the post-social, i.e. a transition from a welfare state-centered form of the nation to its neoliberal competitive state counterpart; and secondly, to analyze its attendant memory dynamics. The double articulation of collective memory under neoliberalism, the deep and recurring violence it has involved at both the social and the individual level, and its self-articulation as a social memory apparatus are apparent in two Chilean films exploring the logic (Pablo Larraín’s Tony Manero) and the history (Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia de la luz) of the implementation of this neoliberal memory apparatus in Chile. Este trabajo intenta iluminar una transición más amplia que aquella entre dictadura y post-dictadura ( y sus correspondientes formas de memoria sobre la violencia militar o los abusos a los derechos humanos) que suele ser el objeto de estudio de los trabajos sobre violencia política y memoria social. Mi interés es doble: primero, describir una transición del mundo social al post-social (es decir, una transición desde una forma de estado-nación centrada en el estado de bienestar a su contraparte neoliberal y competitiva; y en segundo lugar, analizar sus correspondientes formas de memoria. La doble articulación de la memoria colectiva bajo el neoliberalismo, la profunda y recurrente violencia presente, tanto a nivel social como a nivel individual, y su autoarticulación como un aparato de la memoria social son evidentes en las dos películas chilenas Tony Manero de Pablo Larraín y Nostalgia de la luz de Patricio Guzmán que exploran la lógica y la historia de la implementación de este aparato de la memoria neoliberal en Chile.

scholarly journals Tekstowe figury pamiętania w preambule konstytucji a kształtowanie pamięci kulturowej narodu

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Kowalczyk
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Real Potential ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Republic

The article describes the possibility of storing and reconstructing collective memory in the text of the preamble to the Constitution. The source material, which was analyzed, was the introduction to the currently binding constitution of the Republic of Poland. The aim of the study was to identify and describe fragments of the preamble, having a real potential of influence on shaping the social memory of the community. The methodology of cultural memory, proposed by Aleida and Jan Assmann, became a methodological basis for the conducted observation, with particular emphasis on the assumptions about the figures of memory, that is facts or objects, recalling memories or imaginations about memories.

scholarly journals Zona oeste da cidade do rio de janeiro: Entre o rural e o urbano

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (45) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Amália Silva Alves de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Public Funds ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
The City ◽  
Collective Representations

A Zona Oeste da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) se constituiu entre o rural e o urbano. Seu processo de integração econômico, social, político, cultural e ambiental foi construído em torno da ideia de natureza e da vocação agrícola, ainda não completamente apagada da memória social.  Diante do presente e do passado da Zona Oeste, observa-se a tensão entre duas identidades construídas a partir de referenciais relacionados ao urbano e ao rural. Desta forma, a proposta do presente trabalho incide sobre análise do processo histórico que fornece as bases memoriais onde se assentam as representações coletivas acerca das categorias rural e urbano constituinte da identidade dos moradores da referida região. A pesquisa que subsidia aqui exposta resulta do projeto “Visite seu bairro” que está sendo desenvolvido desde 2010 e do projeto “Zona Oeste Revisitada: memória, patrimônio e turismo”, este último financiado através de recursos públicos oriundos do Edital FAPERJ Nº 42/2014.Palavras-chave: Zona Oeste. Rural. Urbano. Representações Coletivas. Memória Coletiva.West zone of the city of rio de janeiro: Between rural and urbanAbstractThe ZonaOeste of the City of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) was constituted between the rural and the urban. Its process of economic, social, political, cultural and environmental integration was built around the idea of nature and the agricultural vocation, not yet completely erased from social memory. In view of the present and the past of the ZonaOeste, one can observe the tension between two identities built from references related to urban and rural. In this way, the proposal of the present work focuses on analysis of the historical process that provides the memorandum bases where the collective representations are based on the rural and urban categories constituting the identity of the inhabitants of that region. The research that subsidizes here is a result of the project "Visit your neighborhood" that has been developed since 2010 and the project "ZonaOeste Revisited: memory, heritage and tourism", the latter financed through public funds from FAPERJ Edict No. 42/2014 .Keywords: ZonaOeste. Rural. Urban. Collective Representations. Collective Memory. 

scholarly journals Between Individual Memory and Social Memory. What Do People in Poland Remember About 1989?

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Aneta Ostaszewska
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Individual Memory ◽  
Collapse Of Communism ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

30 years have passed since the events of 1989 that led to the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. In the paper the themes of social memory of political transformation in Poland in 1989 are discussed. The content of online statements collected from popular Polish news portals are analysed. When asking the question what events and experiences do Poles bring back when they think of 1989, I am interested in the relationship between the individual (biographical) memory and collective memory – the socially reconstructed knowledge of the past.

scholarly journals IS POLICY OF MEMORY POSSIBLE AND HOW?

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-21
Author(s):  
ioletta Małgorzata Kowalska
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Democratic Principle ◽  
Political Question

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the concept and possibility of the democratic policy of collective memory in national and trans‐national, or European, contexts. The presupposition of the paper is that memory, while largely unintentional, is also intentional and even partially constructed and, as such, always subjected to influences, even manipulations, i.e. to different policies. Memory is no doubt a “political question” and every policy deals with it, trying to shape social memory according to some political and ideological objectives. In particular, communism implied a very strong policy of memory aiming at destroying many sorts and layers of memory in favour of another. After the fall of communism there have also been many attempts at reshaping collective memory. These recent attempts have been certainly much more democratic than the communist manipulations but far from being based on the democratic principle of equality of different perspectives and discussion. The attempt was rather, namely in Poland, to replace, once again, one kind of “official” memory by another. The really democratic policy of collective memory should imply, on the contrary, a free confrontation of different and sometimes opposing memories in the open public sphere where no “symbolic violence” has place and where all participants not only treat each other as equals but are also ready to modify the meaning of their particular memory and look for mutual comprehension, if not for agreement. The question is whether such democratic policy can ever be more than a moral postulation.

FRAYED AT THE EDGES: COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND HISTORY ON THE BORDERS OF CLASSIC MAYA POLITIES

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Golden
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Classic Maya ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Classic Period ◽  
Late Classic ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Piedras Negras ◽  
Political Act ◽  
And Control

AbstractThis article explores social memory and history as they pertain particularly to secondary political centers on the edges of the Classic Maya kingdoms of Piedras Negras and Yaxchilan. Over the course of the Late Classic period (a.d. 600–900) the rulers of Maya polities in the Usumacinta River basin increasingly relied on the subordinate lords who governed these secondary centers to patrol and control the boundaries of their territories. For the rulers of any state, formulating an appropriate and coherent history to guide social memory is a critical political act for maintaining the cohesion of the political community. But as the Classic period progressed, client lords were increasingly permitted a formerly royal prerogative; they were accorded their own inscribed monuments. The monuments, together with associated ritual performances, were an integral part of the construction of history and collective memory in local communities and allowed secondary nobles to restructure social memory for their own interests. This trend, in turn, increased the potential for royal history and authority to be contested throughout the kingdom. Through several case studies this paper examines the ways that subordinate nobles could contest social memory and history sanctioned by primary rulers and the ways in which kings acted to maintain the reins of history and memory.

scholarly journals To the question of the concepts of «historical consciousness» and «historical memory»

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-151
Author(s):  
Yuliya Solomonovna Repinetskaya
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Historical Science ◽  
The Public ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Individual Memory ◽  
Public Consciousness

The article defines the concepts historical consciousness and historical memory which are studied by many social sciences and are termed differently. The author indicates multiplicity of social memory as a process. Besides the public (social) memory the author distinguishes cultural memory (researched, especially recent); collective memory (faced and meaningful common experiences living together); individual memory (represented experience); historical memory, etc. Historical consciousness and historical memory are the terms that take a key position in the theory and methodology of historical science. The author of the article also draws attention to the analysis of the approaches of contemporary scientists L.P. Repina and Maurice Halbwachs (the founder of the theory of historical memory (1877-1945) to the interpretation of the problem. The essence of historical consciousness and memory is characterized, public consciousness is distinguished. The author draws attention to such an important aspect of the problem as identifying complex concepts-synonyms appearing in the theory and methodology of historical science like historical consciousness and historical memory. Special emphasis is made on showing dialectical unity concepts mentioned above.

scholarly journals STUDIES OF HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL MEMORY IN MODERN RUSSIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY

2021 ◽  
pp. 79-87
Author(s):  
Анна Валерьевна Белова ◽  
Галина Алексеевна Кокорина
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Gender Specificity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Modern Russian

В статье рассматриваются основные точки зрения современных отечественных и зарубежных ученых, освещающие проблемы изучения исторической и социальной памяти. Анализируются существенные подходы к определению таких понятий как «историческая память», «социальная память», «место памяти», «коллективная память». Дается характеристика исследований, посвященных изучению мемуарного текста, через гендерные различия воспроизводства памяти об исторической родине. Рассматриваются основные точки зрения на гендерную специфику памяти об исторической родине. Описываются взгляды современных историографов, освещающие вопросы истории повседневности. Проводится анализ основной и ведущей совокупности исследований в области истории повседневности в связи с исследованиями памяти. Также в работе рассматриваются основные научные труды в рамках темы памяти иностранцев об исторической родине. The article deals with the main points of view of modern domestic and foreign historiographers, highlighting the main processes and methods in the study of historical memory. The main approaches to the definition of such concepts as «historical memory», «social memory», «place of memory», «collective memory» are analyzed. The article describes the research devoted to the study of the memoir text, through gender differences in the reproduction of the memory of the historical homeland. The main points of view on the gender specificity of the memory of the historical homeland are considered. The article describes the main points of view of modern historiographers, covering the issues of the history of everyday life. The analysis of the main and leading set of studies in the field of the history of everyday life is carried out. The paper also examines the main scientific works within the framework of a given topic.

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