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Debating early modern and modern memory: Cultural forms and effects: a critical retrospective
Lees and Moonshine: Remembering Richard III, 1485-1635
Published version of article deposited in accordance with Sherpa Romeo guidelines. © University of Chicago Press, 2010publication-status: AcceptedNot long after Shakespeare’s birth (1564) the last witnesses to the reign of Richard III (1483-85) would have reached the end of their lives. Richard III (c. 1592) occupies a distinctive historical moment in relation to its subject – a period after the extinction of living memory, but still within the horizon of communicative memory, the period in which stories and recollections may be transmitted across multiple generations. This essay explores how memories and “postmemories” of Richard’s reign were preserved, transmitted and transformed over the course of the sixteenth century and into the seventeenth. Whilst reflecting the powerful influence of emerging contexts including the Reformation and, ultimately, Shakespeare’s play, these memories remained distinct from and sometimes at odds with textual history. They survived because they offered their bearers a resource for interpreting and resisting the predicaments of the present, from the problem of tyranny to the legacies of the Reformation
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Letter from Ralegh Radford to William C. Brice, June 4, 1957
Radford begins by apologizing for the delay in response to correspondence, given his current travels and excavations. He then gives an account of the Society's actions leading to their termination of Scripta Miona III. Radford ends the letter expressing his sincere regrets of Brice's work in light of the situation.Classic
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Letter from Ralegh Radford to William C. Brice, November 9, 1955
Radford arranges a committee for the proofing of Scripta Minoa III. It includes Michael Ventris, William C. Brice and Dr. Harden. He coordinates the acquisition of material from Museo Pigorini in Rome through Dr. Ward-Perkins. He finishes the letter stating Brice's name will appear on the title page of Scripta Minoa III.Classic
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Letter from Ralegh Radford to William C. Brice, May 8, 1957
Radford writes personally to clarify the reasons behind the cancelation of Scripta Minoa III. Those reasons, he describes, are cost-benefits, the time required by the press to arrange the material, the timing of Caratelli's own volume of Linear A material, and that the material and research may appear immediately outdated immediately which would tarnish the memory of Evans and Myres. Radford expresses his regrets, given Brice's work on the project as Editor.Classic
Dacia. Recherches et découvertes archéologiques en Roumanie. I (1924) and II (1925). Edited by V. Pârvan. Bucarest: Cultura Nationala, 1927. Pp. vii + 368, vii + 429 with numerous text illustrations.
The Iron Age in Italy. By D. Randall-MacIver. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927. Pp. xx + 243, with 47 plates and 90 text figures. 84 s
R. Krautheimer, W. Frankl and S. Corbett, Corpus Basilicarum Christianarum Romae: The early Christian basilicas of Rome (IV–IX cent.). Vol. II, no. 1. Vatican City: Pontificio Istituto di archeologia cristiana, 1959. Pp. XII + 144, 8 plates and 123 text figs. Price not stated.
Erich Gose, Katalog der frĂĽhchristlichen Inschriften in Trier. (= Trierer Grabungen und Forschungen, Band III). Trier: Rheinisches Landesmuseum; Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1958. Pp. VIII + 130. Price not stated.
The Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Number 3. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1946. Pp. 224 with 258 illustrations. $1.50.
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