Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xix, 340 p)
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ISBN:
9789004261259
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9789004261242
Series Statement:
Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions v. 176
Content:
Introduction: On the early modernity of modern memory / Judith Pollmann and Erika Kuijpers -- PART I. Memory politics and memory wars -- The usable past in the Lemberg Armenian community's struggle for equal rights, 1578-1654 / Alexandr Osipian -- A contested past : memory wars during the Twelve Years Truce (1609-21) / Jasper van der Steen -- You will see who they are that revile, and lessen your glorious deliverance" : the "memory war" about the "glorious revolution" / Ulrich Niggemann -- Civic and confessional memory in conflict : Augsburg in the sixteenth century / Sean F. Dunwoody -- Tales of a peasant revolt : taboos and memories of 1514 in Hungary / Gabriella Erdelyi -- Shaping the memory of the French wars of religion : the first centuries / Philip Benedict -- Part II. Mediality -- Celebrating a Trojan horse : memories of the Dutch revolt in Breda, 1590-1650 / Marianne Eekhout -- "The odious demon from across the sea" : Oliver Cromwell, memory and the dislocations of Ireland / Sarah Covington -- Material memories of the guildsmen : crafting identities in early modern London / Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin -- Between storytelling and patriotic scripture : the memory brokers of the Dutch Revolt / Erika Kuijpers -- Lost in time and space? : glocal memoryscapes in the early modern world / Dagmar Freist -- The spaces of memory and their transmediations : on the lives of exotic images and their material evocations / Benjamin Schmidt -- PART III. Personal memory -- Disturbing memories : narrating experiences and emotions of distressing events in the French wars of religion / Susan Broomhall -- Remembering fear : the fear of violence and the violence of fear in seventeenth-century war memories / Andreas Bahr -- Permeable memories : family history and the diaspora of southern Netherlandish exiles in the seventeenth century / Johannes Muller -- Women, memory and family history in seventeenth-century England / Katharine Hodgkin -- The experience of rupture and the history of memory / Brecht Deseure and Judith Pollmann.
Content:
This volume examines the practice of memory in early modern Europe, showing that this was already a multimedia affair with many political uses, and affecting people at all levels of society; many pre-modern memory practices persist until today
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004261242
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004261242
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Memory before Modernity: Practices of Memory in Early Modern Europe Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2013 ISBN 9789004261242
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004261259
