Reformations and their impact on the culture of memoria
By: edited by Truus van Bueren, Paul Cockerham, Caroline Horch, Martine Meuwese and Thomas Schilp
Series: Memoria and Remembrance Practices -- volume 1; Memoria and remembrance practices -- v. 1.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Turnhout, Belgium
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9782503568546; 9782503568560
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Christian art and symbolism; History; Counter-Reformation in art; Reformation and art
Description: "This volume presents cultural studies approaches to different modes of memoria (the original medieval way of commemoration), taking into account specific confessional contexts. It mainly focuses on the consequences of political, religious and social reforms in the period from 1200 to 1800. Scholars from multiple subject areas in the field of cultural studies evaluate if, and to what extent, reform processes and political or social change have influenced different practices of memoria. Since customs of commemoration of the dead (and the living) serve as a means of self-reassurance for a society, they allow significant insights into what the respective societies were grounded upon. This volume delivers the first discipline-specific and methodologically diverse approach to the consequences of different reforms on memoria. In this way this overview creates a "history of memoria" throughout the centuries."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-379).

Primarily in English, some chapters in German.