Malayan Chinese Popular Memory:

2020 ◽  
pp. 58-89
Keyword(s):  
Popular Memory

Celebrity Earthquakes

2020 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 599-602
Author(s):  
Duncan Carr Agnew
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Popular Memory

Abstract I discuss how much attention different earthquakes get in the scientific and nonscientific literature. For the former, all earthquakes above magnitude 7.5 appear in a scientific article, and the number of articles tends to increase with magnitude. For the latter, most shocks, even if damaging, become largely forgotten in a few decades, though some, such as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, live on in popular memory.

Imagining the Cathars in Late-twentieth-century Languedoc

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 409-427
Author(s):  
Emily McCaffrey
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Local History ◽  
Academic History ◽  
Popular Memory ◽  
Political Writing ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This article describes the recent resurgence of the popular memory of the thirteenth-century Cathar, or Albigensian, heresy and its bloody repression in Languedoc, south-western France. After centuries of having been relegated to the realms of elite historical theological and political writing, today the memory of the Cathars dominates local history, culture, literature and tourism. Indeed, the popular memory of the Cathars has become central to collective identity and its expressions. The article explores how local professional historians have mediated, sometimes awkwardly, between academic history and popular history.

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