Myths, Memories, and The Representation of Identities

by Peter Burke

Overview

Professor Burke's new book focuses on three major historical categories: myths, memories and representations. As with all his work, Professor Burke draws on a large range of literature, discussion, ideas from several disciplines, to offer new syntheses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781912224821
Publisher:	Edward Everett Root
Publication date:	06/30/2019
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.85(w) x 8.44(h) x 0.36(d)

About the Author

Peter Burke was, from 1962-79, one of the leading educational innovators in developing the inter-disciplinary School of European Studies at University of Sussex. He then moved to the University of Cambridge, where he now holds the title of Professor Emeritus of Cultural History and Fellow of Emmanuel College. He is celebrated world-wide as a historian both of the early modern era and as a writer and teacher who emphasizes the relevance of social and cultural history to modern issues. He is married to Brazilian historian Maria Lúcia Garcia Pallares-Burke.

Table of Contents

Part 1, Myths.

1. The Myth of the Iron Crown.

2. The Myth of 1453: Notes and Reflections'.

3. Foundation Myths and Collective Identities in Early Modern.

4. Myths of Venice.

5. History, Myth and Fiction: Doubts and Debates.

Part 2, Memories.

1.Co-memorations: performing the past.

Part 3, Representations

1. Presenting and Re-presenting Charles V.

2. The Reconstruction of Political Rituals in the Age of Louis XIV.

3. On the Margins of the Public and the Private: Louis XIV at Versailles. 4. Representing Women’s Work in Early Modern Italy.