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"The phenomenon of martyrdom is more than 2000 years old but, as contemporary events show, still very much alive. This book examines the canonisation, contestation and afterlives of martyrdom and connects these with cross-cultural acts and practices of remembrance. Martyrdom appeals to the imagination of many because it is a highly ambiguous spectacle with thrilling deadly consequences. Imagination is thus a vital catalyst for martyrdom, for martyrs become martyrs only because others remember and honour them as such. This memorialisation occurs through rituals and documents that incorporate and re-interpret traditions deriving from canonical texts. The canonisation of martyrdom generally occurs in one of two ways: First, through ritual commemoration by communities of inside readers, listeners, viewers and participants, who create and recycle texts, re-interpreting them until the martyrs ultimately receive a canonical status, or second, through commemoration as a means of contestation by competing communities who perceive these same people as traitors or terrorists. By adopting an interdisciplinary orientation and a cross-cultural approach, this book goes beyond both the insider admiration of martyrs and the partisan rejection of martyrdoms and concisely synthesises key interpretive questions and themes that broach the canonised, unstable and contested representations of martyrdom as well as their analytical connections, divergences and afterlives in the present."--

Martyrdom --- Canonization --- 235.3*7 --- Rites and ceremonies --- Beatification --- Christian saints --- Death --- Suffering --- Martyrs --- 235.3*7 Martelaren --- Martelaren --- Religious aspects --- Canonization. --- Martyrdom. --- Martyrdom, canonization, commemoration. --- Martyre

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An examination of the growth of civic power in the turbulent arena of late medieval London.

London (England) --- Great Britain --- History --- Social conditions. --- Social life and customs. --- HISTORY / Medieval. --- Capital. --- Charity. --- Civic Community. --- Commemoration. --- Common Profit. --- Late Medieval London. --- London Aldermen. --- Street Revolt. --- University of Chester. --- Victorian Guilds.

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La France, comme d'autres pays d'Europe, porte encore dans son paysage et sa mémoire les blessures des nombreux conflits armés du xxe siècle. La Seconde Guerre mondiale, en particulier, y a engendré de nombreux « lieux de mémoire » : villages-martyrs, lieux de massacre par les nazis, camps d'internement vichystes, lieux de combats de la Résistance... Ces traces ont suscité la création de musées et de mémoriaux dont l'existence, en tant qu'institutions, ne laisse pas d'être problématique quant aux choix des thèmes et aux modes d'exposition des événements concernés. Dans ses thèses relatives à la muséologie, Georges-Henri Rivière parle ainsi d'une « ponctuation de l'espace adéquate à l'organisation idéologique du message à transmettre ». Que transmettre ? La guerre et la politique peuvent-elles devenir un patrimoine ? Telle sont les questions centrales posées par ces musées qui participent de stratégies mémorielles de groupes, de collectivités territoriales ou d'État, questions que reprennent à leur compte les auteurs du présent ouvrage pour engager une réflexion critique et stimulante sur les politiques de transmission de la mémoire.

World War, 1939-1945 --- Museum exhibits --- Holocaust memorials --- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 --- Monuments de l'Holocauste --- Objets exposés --- Monuments --- Political aspects --- Museums --- Musées --- Musées. --- Aspect politique --- History & Archaeology --- History - General --- musée --- Shoah --- lieux de mémoire --- commémoration --- mémoire --- Auschwitz --- mémorial --- histoire militaire --- Déportation --- Résistance --- Museology --- History and memory --- War memorials --- 20th century. --- Objets exposés --- Musées --- Musées.

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Alors qu’elle s’interroge, se regarde et se raconte depuis des siècles, l’Europe demeure perplexe au miroir de ses inépuisables productions. Elle est à l’étroit dans les paragraphes étriqués des documents juridiques, elle tend à se soustraire aux appropriations idéologiques de toutes obédiences, dépasse toujours les images d’elle-même qu’elle crée sans relâche, échappe à sa propre histoire comme à ses historiens, à ses géographes et à tous ceux qui s’efforcent de la définir. Mais elle offre à l’expérience et à l’imagination des hommes la richesse infiniment diversifiée de son patrimoine. S’il est encore et toujours difficile de dire l’Europe, du moins peut-on la percevoir et la toucher, surtout en ces lieux singuliers mais innombrables où se livre au regard et à l’esprit un surcroît de sens. Frontières, carrefours, passages, nœuds urbains, vastes plaines, lieux de commémoration ou de mémoire : ce sont quelques-uns d’entre eux qui ont inspiré les auteurs de cet ouvrage. Dire l’Europe, sous leurs plumes croisées, c’est la redire sans cesse dans la multiplicité de ses manifestations particulières.

Legendary places --- Mythical places --- Geographical myths --- Group identity --- Collective memory --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- National characteristics --- Folklore --- Mythology --- Europa --- Kulturelle Identität --- Raum --- Wahrnehmung --- Grenze --- Europe (mythologie) --- espace européen --- commémoration --- Lesbos --- frontières --- Austerlitz --- mythe européen --- Odessa

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When the mind turns more than one would wish towards questions of - as W. G. Sebald puts it - the 'natural history of destruction', comparative consideration by artists and interdisciplinary scholars is directed to the interstices between images, novel, essay, (auto)biography, memorial and travelogue. Artists have been among Sebald's most prolific interpreters - as they are among the more fearless and holistic researchers on questions concerning what it means never to be able to fix an identity, to tell a migrant's story, or to know where a historical trauma ends. Sebald has - as this book attests - also given artists and scholars a means to write with images, to embrace ambiguity, and to turn to today's migrants with empathy and responsibility; as well as to let academic research, creation and institutional engagement blend into or substantially inform one another in order to account for and enable such necessary work in the most diverse contexts.

Art and literature. --- Memory, Word and Image Studies, Artistic research, migration and borders, trauma and art, (post-) war and conflict, Museums and Exhibitions, Politics of Identity and Commemoration, Intervention and Resistance Narratives, Lit-erary art exhibitions, Holocaust remembrance. --- ART / History / Contemporary (1945-). --- Sebald, W. G. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Sebald, W. G. (Winfried Georg),