TY - CHAP
T1 - Curating the past
T2 - the retrieval of historical memories and utopian ideals
AU - Neil, Bronwen
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Utopia is a landscape of the imagination. In this introduction to the volume, Neil gives an overview of the roles played by the reshaping of texts, physical landscapes, and built environments from 300 to 750 CE in altering people’s memory of their common pasts. Neil looks at different definitions of utopia and reviews recent scholarship on memory studies. In framing the chapters to come, she introduces various methods of approach to memory studies dealing with late-antique sources. These range from North Africa, Italy, Spain, and Gaul in the West, to Egypt, Asia Minor, Greece, Palestine, and Syria in the East. Neil argues that we can find similar ideologically motivated discourses of destruction and reconstruction of the past right across the Later Roman Empire, from the initial contact of Graeco-Roman communities with Christians up to the Arab-Byzantine wars of the seventh and eighth centuries.
AB - Utopia is a landscape of the imagination. In this introduction to the volume, Neil gives an overview of the roles played by the reshaping of texts, physical landscapes, and built environments from 300 to 750 CE in altering people’s memory of their common pasts. Neil looks at different definitions of utopia and reviews recent scholarship on memory studies. In framing the chapters to come, she introduces various methods of approach to memory studies dealing with late-antique sources. These range from North Africa, Italy, Spain, and Gaul in the West, to Egypt, Asia Minor, Greece, Palestine, and Syria in the East. Neil argues that we can find similar ideologically motivated discourses of destruction and reconstruction of the past right across the Later Roman Empire, from the initial contact of Graeco-Roman communities with Christians up to the Arab-Byzantine wars of the seventh and eighth centuries.
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP170104595
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U2 - 10.4324/9780429448508-1
DO - 10.4324/9780429448508-1
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85104770186
SN - 9781138328679
T3 - Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
SP - 3
EP - 19
BT - Memories of Utopia
A2 - Neil, Bronwen
A2 - Simic, Kosta
PB - Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
CY - London ; New York
ER -