Pamięć o złej pamięci – recenzja

Abstract

In her review of Dario Calomino’s book Defacing the Past, Anna Anzorge-Potrzebowska presents her reflections on the condemnation of memory inspired by this publication. Calomino’s aim has been to trace the changes introduced to the images of Roman rulers across various media. Those changes could (though not always had to) bear marks of a negative judgment of a given figure for ideological or political reasons. Calomino’s focus is on numismatics. His considerations are supplemented by references to analogous modifications of images of people from the emperors’ entourage and extensive use of sources other than numismatic. This approach places Calomino in a stream of research connected with the condemnation of memory. The way this author conducts the narrative also highlights such issues as the memory culture, the policy of historical memory in the Roman empire. The reviewer deliberately indicates here the area of the empire because Calomino’s book is not devoted exclusively to the Roman perspective. Recenzja książki: Defacing the Past: Damnation and Desecration in Imperial Rome / Dario Calomino. - London, 2016.