Memory Boxes ：An Experimental Approach to Cultural Transfer in History, 1500-2000 ( Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften )

Publication subTitle ：An Experimental Approach to Cultural Transfer in History, 1500-2000

Publication series ：Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften

Author： Aali Heta;Perämäki Anna-Leena;Sarti Cathleen  

Publisher： transcript-Verlag‎

Publication year： 2014

E-ISBN: 9783839427866

Subject： H0 Linguistics;K5 European History

Keyword： 语言学,欧洲史

Language： ENG

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Description

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.

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Preface

Memory Boxes. An Experimental Approach to Cultural Transfer in History, 1500–2000

Topoi

Topoi as a Memory Box

How to Visualise an Event that is not Representable? The Topos of Massacre in François Dubois’ St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

The Topos of Martyrdom as a Memory Box. The Book of Martyrs by John Foxe and the Fresco Cycle at San Tomaso di Canterbury

The Topos of Golden Age in Friedrich Schlegel’s Notion of Cultural Transfer from Antiquity to Early Nineteenth-Century Germany

Providence. The Making of a Religious-political Memory Box

Personalities

Personalities as a Memory Box

The Personality of Queen Clotilde in Early Nineteenth- Century France

Henry the Lion – Enrico Leone. A Precious Memory Box of the House of Brunswick

Artefacts

Artefacts as a Memory Box

Becoming of a Memory Box: the Kalevala. Sung Poetry, Printed Word and National Identity

Encapsulating Visions of Nationhood. Finland (1911) as a Memory Box

Diaries, Material Memory Holders. Creating a Memory Box

“We wanted a parliament but they gave us a stone”. The Coronation Stone of the Scots as a Memory Box in the Twentieth Century

An Epilogue. Reflections on Working with the Concept of Memory Box

List of Contributors

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