Memory before modernity : practices of memory in early modern Europe
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Memory before modernity : practices of memory in early modern Europe
(Studies in medieval and Reformation thought, v. 176)
Brill, 2013
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Many students of memory assume that the practice of memory changed dramatically around 1800; this volume shows that there was much continuity as well as change. Premodern ways of negotiating memories of pain and loss, for instance, were indeed quite different to those in the modern West. Yet by examining memory practices and drawing on evidence from early modern England, France, Germany, Ireland, Hungary, the Low Countries and Ukraine, the case studies in this volume highlight the extent to which early modern memory was already a multimedia affair, with many political uses, and affecting stakeholders at all levels of society.
Contributors include: Andreas Bahr, Philip Benedict, Susan Broomhall, Sarah Covington, Brecht Deseure, Sean Dunwoody, Marianne Eekhout, Gabriela Erdelyi, Dagmar Freist, Katharine Hodgkin, Jasmin Kilburn-Toppin, Erika Kuijpers, Johannes Muller, Ulrich Niggemann, Alexandr Osipian, Judith Pollmann, Benjamin Schmidt, Jasper van der Steen
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction. On the Early Modernity of Modern Memory .
Judith Pollmann and Erika Kuijpers
PART I - MEMORY POLITICS AND MEMORY WARS
1. The Usable Past in the Lemberg Armenian Community's Struggle for Equal Rights, 1578-1654
Alexandr Osipian
2. A Contested Past. Memory Wars during the Twelve Years Truce (1609-21)
Jasper van der Steen
3. 'You Will See Who They Are that Revile, and Lessen Your Glorious Deliverance'. The 'Memory War' about the 'Glorious Revolution'
Ulrich Niggemann
4. Civic and Confessional Memory in Conflict. Augsburg in the Sixteenth Century
Sean F. Dunwoody
5. Tales of a Peasant Revolt. Taboos and Memories of 1514 in Hungary
Gabriella Erdelyi
6. Shaping the Memory of the French Wars of Religion. The First Centuries
Philip Benedict
PART II - MEDIALITY
7. Celebrating a Trojan Horse. Memories of the Dutch Revolt in Breda, 1590-1650
Marianne Eekhout
8. 'The Odious Demon from Across the Sea'. Oliver Cromwell, Memory and the Dislocations of Ireland
Sarah Covington
9. Material Memories of the Guildsmen. Crafting Identities in Early Modern London .
Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin
10. Between Storytelling and Patriotic Scripture. The Memory Brokers of the Dutch Revolt
Erika Kuijpers
11. Lost in Time and Space? Glocal Memoryscapes in the Early Modern World
Dagmar Freist
12. The Spaces of Memory and their Transmediations. On the Lives of Exotic Images and their Material Evocations
Benjamin Schmidt
PART III - PERSONAL MEMORY
13. Disturbing Memories. Narrating Experiences and Emotions of Distressing Events in the French Wars of Religion
Susan Broomhall
14. Remembering Fear. The Fear of Violence and the Violence of Fear in Seventeenth-Century War Memories
Andreas Bahr
15. Permeable Memories. Family History and the Diaspora of Southern Netherlandish Exiles in the Seventeenth Century
Johannes Muller
16. Women, Memory and Family History in Seventeenth-Century England
Katharine Hodgkin
17. The Experience of Rupture and the History of Memory
Brecht Deseure and Judith Pollmann
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