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

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2014

Memory Boxes

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

Edited by: Heta Aali , Anna-Leena Perämäki and Cathleen Sarti
Funded by: Forschungsschwerpunkt Historische Kulturwissenschaften der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Volume 22 in the series Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften

https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839427866

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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 finished her PhD-thesis at the University of Mainz in 2017. Her research interests focus on political culture and rule in the Protestant monarchies of Northern Europe.

Reviews

»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)

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Content Open Access Download PDF	5
Preface Open Access Download PDF	9
Memory Boxes an Experimental Approach to Cultural Transfer in History, 1500–2000 Jörg Rogge and Hannu Salmi Open Access Download PDF	11
Topoi as a Memory Box Kristina Müller-Bongard, Asko Nivala, Cathleen Sarti and Alexandra Schäfer Open Access Download PDF	21
How to Visualise an Event that is not Representable? The Topos of Massacre in François Dubois’ St . Bartholomew's Day Massacre Alexandra Schäfer Open Access Download PDF	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 Kristina Müller-Bongard Open Access Download PDF	55
The Topos of Golden Age in Friedrich Schlegel’s Notion of Cultural Transfer from Antiquity to Early Nineteenth- Century Germany Asko Nivala Open Access Download PDF	79
Providence The Making of a Religious-political Memory Box Cathleen Sarti Open Access Download PDF	93
Personalities as a Memory Box Heta Aali Open Access Download PDF	109
The Personality of Queen Clotilde in Early Nineteenth-Century France Heta Aali Open Access Download PDF	113
Henry the Lion – Enrico Leone A Precious Memory Box of the House of Brunswick Matthias Schnettger Open Access Download PDF	131
Artefacts as a Memory Box Anna-Leena Perämäki Open Access Download PDF	151
Becoming of a Memory Box: the Kalevala Sung Poetry, Printed Word and National Identity Juhana Saarelainen Open Access Download PDF	155
Encapsulating Visions of Nationhood Finland (1911) as a Memory Box Hannu Salmi Open Access Download PDF	177
Diaries, Material Memory Holders Creating a Memory Box Anna-Leena Perämäki Open Access Download PDF	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 Jörg Rogge Open Access Download PDF	219
An Epilogue Reflections on Working with the Concept of Memory Box Cathleen Sarti and Alexandra Schäfer Open Access Download PDF	239
List of Contributors Open Access Download PDF	241

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 242
Keywords: History; Cultural Memory; Cultural Exchange; Memory Culture; Cultural History; European History; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: July 27, 2014
ISBN: 9783839427866