16 August
1824 Charles Willson Peale's "Blackberry Rambles"
1878 death of Richard Upjohn
"Fathoming the Unfathomable"
reenactment
part 1.b
part 1.c
historical accuracy
part 1.e
part 1.f
part 1.g
part 1.h
1997.08.16
Learning from Lacunae
2000.08.16
(Helena) EPICENTRAL
2001.08.16 10:06
Re: 1000 Kunstler
2002.08.16 13:49
2002.08.16 14:14
Re: closing the visible space
2003.08.16 09:39
2003.08.16 20:50
2003.08.16 21:02
Re: iron curtain
2003.08.16 10:35
2003.08.16 10:49
2003.08.16 11:02
2003.08.16 14:25
Re: pointers
2003.08.16 15:11
sizing up
2003.08.16 21:24
Big up your home urban conurbation
2005.08.16 10:42
the agnostic design of spiritual space
2005.08.16 11:09
2005.08.16 11:28
2005.08.16 11:41
2005.08.16 12:57
2005.08.16 13:10
2005.08.16 13:21
2005.08.16 14:30
2005.08.16 16:56
2005.08.16 17:15
2005.08.16 17:35
2005.08.16 17:48
2005.08.16 18:06
2005.08.16 18:16
Is it Architecture?
2005.08.16 11:46
2005.08.16 12:48
2005.08.16 13:04
2005.08.16 19:32
(Helena) EPICENTRAL
2006.08.16 10:08
07081601.db Trivilla Savoye plans
07081602.db Trivilla Savoye, perspectives
07081603.db Villa Savoye, model, reduced of jambs
07081604.db Trivilla Savoye, model
07081605.db Trivilla Savoye, perspectives
Adam (sans Eve) in the Garden of Satire
2008.08.16 13:46
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(Helena) EPICENTRAL
2001.08.16 10:06
First off I have to correct a mistake I made in writing here yesterday. I wrote that I have yet to see a footnote reference regarding the damnatio memoriae of Crispus and Fausta, and that statement is plain wrong. In truth I have seen the footnote, but not recently. Hans Pohlsander provides exactly what I was asking for within the Crispus and Fausta web pages at roman-emperors.org. Pohlsander provides all the dm occurrences within the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum for both imperials: documented are six occurrences of dm for Crispus and one for Fausta, and the one of Fausta's is also one of Crispus'. I looked at all the referenced inscriptions (in CIL) yesterday afternoon. I'm not fluent in Latin to have been able to read everything, but I understand enough to know that there is very good documentation on this specific subject.
I also borrowed Hedrick's History and Silence, which was in the exact same stack area as the CIL. Seeing that Hedrick immediately writes about Piranesi in the book's Preface made the book doubly interesting to me. Yes it is a very good (and quite timely) book. Last night, when I got around to reading chapter four at leisure (I skipped to chapter four, but already read the preface), I found myself understanding exactly what Hedrick was relating, namely that he was very close to describing reenactment. I quickly found that the first footnoote in chapter four references Collingwood and reenactment.
Now on to other wavelengths oscillating here at lt-antiq. Regarding Helena and calendrical coincidences, I no doubt appreciate what Paul Halshall writes. I, in turn, truly wish I had the academic background that makes doing saint cultus research and reading a not so almost impossible (for me) task. Nonetheless, saint cults are not finite sets or a done deal. As far as I'm concerned the Saint Helena cult (for example) is certainly hitting a new high crest.
But, of course, there are many, like Richard Burgess, who have, like Saint Thomas, doubts as strong as convictions. These cases only enforce the reality that history's real job is to understand what did happen, not so much what didn't happen. Hedrick's History and Silence is on this point axiomatic.
ps
Here's an apropos quotation from History and Silence (page 91):
"The history of poltical repression of social and cultural memory in ancient Rome, of the so-called damnatio memoriae, has yet to be written. Even the traditional narrative descriptions of the preocesses by which the state attacked the memory of those deemed public enemies are out of date or incomplete. Vittinghoff's classic book is more than fifty years old and is far from exhaustive. A full account of the damnatio memoriae would be a major project for a mature and accomplished Roman historian."
When reading all that has just been sent to lt-antiq on damnatio memoriae, I sense exactly the project that Hedrick is calling for.
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