https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae

Damnatio memoriae is a modern Latin phrase meaning “condemnation of memory” or “damnation of memory”, indicating that a person is to be excluded from official accounts, or remembered after death in a way contrary to what that person may have desired. There are and have been many routes to damnatio memoriae including the destruction of depictions, the removal of names from inscriptions and documents, and even large-scale rewritings of history.

  • MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io
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    7 days ago

    The language is ancient, but, since it has continued to be used long past its ancient origin, words and phrases have been coined in later periods for various purposes.

    Also, the “early modern” era is roughly considered the period between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution.