The return of the event

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Notes

1 Consider, for example, the popularity of Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie’s Montaillou (1975), a story of religious and family intrigue in the late Middle Ages, a world whose fascination was derived from its strangeness vis-à-vis the one in which we live today.

2 In an interesting aside in an article entitled ‘Reconceptualizing Memory as Event’, Wagner-Pacifici comments that her purpose is to move beyond the limits of memory studies by dealing with events from a prospective as well as a retrospective standpoint (Wagner-Pacifici, 2016, pp. 22–23).