Title: Memory boxes :
Authors: Aali, Heta; Perämäki, Anna-Leena; Sarti, Cathleen,; Gogge, Jörg,; Salmi, Hannu,; Rogge, Jörg,
Date: 2014
Publisher: Transcript,
Physical description: 242 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: G
Contents: Memory boxes : an experimental approach to cultural transfer in history, 1500-2000 / Jörg Rogge and Hannu Salmi -- Topoi as a memory box / Kristina Müller-Bongard [and 3 others] -- How to visualise an event that is not representable? : the topos of massacre in François Dubois' St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre / Alexandra Schäfer -- 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 --The topos of golden age in Friedrich Schlegel's notion of cultural transfer from antiquity to early nineteenth-century Germany / Asko Nivala -- The making of a religious-political memory box / Cathleen Sarti -- Personalities as a memory box / Heta Aali -- The personality of Queen Clotilde in early nineteenth-century France / Heta Aali -- Henry the Lion-Enrico Leone : a precious memory box of the House of Brunswick / Matthias Schnettger -- Artefacts as a memory box / Anna-Leena Perämäki -- Becoming of a memory box : the Kalevala : Sung poetry, printed word and national identity / Juhana Saarelainen -- Encapsulating visions of nationhood : Finland (1911) as a memory box / Hannu Salmi -- Diaries, material memory holders : creating a memory box / Anna-Leena Perämäki -- "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 -- Reflections on working with the concept of memory box / Cathleen Sarti, Alexandra Schäfer.
Subject headings (LCSH): Collective memory.; Cultural relations--History.; Cultural relations.; Culture diffusion--Europe.; Group identity; Memory transfer.; Politics and culture--Europe--History.