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

Titel: Memory Boxes. An Experimental Approach to Cultural Transfer in History, 1500-2000
Veröffentlicht: [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : transcript Verlag, 2014
Umfang: 1 Online Ressource
Format: E-Book
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ISBN: 9783837627862 ; 9783839427866
  • Preface
  • p. 9
  • Memory Boxes: An Experimental Approach to Cultural Transfer in History, 1500-2000
  • p. 11
  • Topoi
  • Topoi as a Memory Box
  • p. 21
  • How to Visualise an Event that is not Representable?: The Topos of Massacre in Francois Dubois' St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
  • p. 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
  • p. 55
  • The Topos of Golden Age in Friedrich Schlegel's Notion of Cultural Transfer from Antiquity to Early Nineteenth-Century Germany
  • p. 79
  • Providence: The Making of a Religious-political Memory Box
  • p. 93
  • Personalities
  • Personalities as a Memory Box
  • p. 109
  • The Personality of Queen Clotilde in Early Nineteenth-Century France
  • p. 113
  • Henry the Lion - Enrico Leone: A Precious Memory Box of the House of Brunswick
  • p. 131
  • Artefacts
  • Artefacts as a Memory Box
  • p. 151
  • Becoming of a Memory Box: the Kalevala: Sung Poetry, Printed Word and National Identity
  • p. 155
  • Encapsulating Visions of Nationhood: Finland (1911) as a Memory Box
  • p. 177
  • Diaries, Material Memory Holders: Creating a Memory Box
  • p. 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
  • p. 219
  • An Epilogue: Reflections on Working with the Concept of Memory Box
  • p. 239
  • List of Contributors
  • p. 241