Memory Boxes An Experimental Approach to Cultural Transfer in History, 1500-2000 Heta Aali, Anna-Leena Perämäki, Cathleen Sarti

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aali, Heta <p>Heta Aali, University of Turku, Finland</p>, Editor.

Perämäki, Anna-Leena, <p>Anna-Leena Perämäki, University of Turku, Finland</p>, Editor.

Sarti, Cathleen, <p>Cathleen Sarti, Universität Mainz, Deutschland</p>, Editor.

Forschungsschwerpunkt Historische Kulturwissenschaften der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Funder.

Series:

Mainzer historische Kulturwissenschaften ; Volume 22.

Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural Transfer.

History.

Cultural Memory.

Cultural Exchange.

Memory Culture.

Cultural History.

European History.

Cultural Studies.

Local Subjects:

Cultural Transfer.

History.

Cultural Memory.

Cultural Exchange.

Memory Culture.

Cultural History.

European History.

Cultural Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Aali et al. (eds.), Memory Boxes An Experimental Approach to Cultural Transfer in History, 1500-2000

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2014

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Heta Aali (MA) is a doctoral candidate at the University of Turku, Finland.

Anna-Leena Perämäki (MA) is a doctoral candidate at the University of Turku, Finland.

Cathleen Sarti, born 1980, has finished her doctoral dissertation at the university of Mainz in 2017. Her research focuses on political culture and authority in Protestant monarchies in Northern Europe, 1400-1700.

Summary:

This volume discusses a practical approach to cultural transfer and exchange through the concept of »memory box«. Ideas of displacement, transfer, and cultural memory are explored through case studies from Scotland to Italy and Germany and from Finland and France to the American colonies.The authors develop an understanding of memory boxes as cultural constructions that are involved in the process of making and disputing memory – but which, simultaneously, are important agents for cultural transfer over space and time. This book emphasises »memory box« as an idea that allows us to study the cultural processes of transfer in conjunction with cultural memory.

»The idea of the memory box is an inspiring one, and as such, it can certainly open new vistas for cultural historians.«

Contents:

1 Content 5 Preface 9 Memory Boxes an Experimental Approach to Cultural Transfer in History, 1500-2000 11 Topoi as a Memory Box 21 How to Visualise an Event that is not Representable? The Topos of Massacre in François Dubois' St . Bartholomew's Day Massacre 27 The Topos of Martyrdom as a Memory Box The Book of Martyrs by John Foxe and the Fresco Cycle at San Tomaso di Canterbury 55 The Topos of Golden Age in Friedrich Schlegel's Notion of Cultural Transfer from Antiquity to Early Nineteenth- Century Germany 79 Providence The Making of a Religious-political Memory Box 93 Personalities as a Memory Box 109 The Personality of Queen Clotilde in Early Nineteenth-Century France 113 Henry the Lion - Enrico Leone A Precious Memory Box of the House of Brunswick 131 Artefacts as a Memory Box 151 Becoming of a Memory Box: the Kalevala Sung Poetry, Printed Word and National Identity 155 Encapsulating Visions of Nationhood Finland (1911) as a Memory Box 177 Diaries, Material Memory Holders Creating a Memory Box 195 "We wanted a parliament but they gave us a stone" The Coronation Stone of the Scots as a Memory Box in the Twentieth Century 219 An Epilogue Reflections on Working with the Concept of Memory Box 239 List of Contributors 241

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9783839427866

383942786X

OCLC:

900019803