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Record Nr.

UNISA996308756903316

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2014

ISBN

3-8394-2786-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles

Collana

Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften ; 22

Classificazione

NK 4760

Disciplina

303.48/24

Soggetti

Cultural Transfer; History; Cultural Memory; Cultural Exchange; Memory Culture; Cultural History; European History; Cultural Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.«  Marika Keblusek, www.sehepunkte.de, 17/3 (2017)