Egyptologist Jan Assmann defines "mnemohistory" is concerned not with the past as such, but only with the past as it is remembered. It surveys the story-lines of tradition, the webs of intertextuality, the diachronic continuities and discontinuties of reading the past. Mnemohistory is not the opposite of history, but rather is one of its branches or subdisciplines, such as intellectual history, social history, the history of mentalities, or the history of ideas... Mnemohistory is reception theory applied to history.
Jan Assmann, Moses the Egyptian (1997)