Memory before Modernity
Practices of Memory in Early Modern Europe
Published on 5. December 2013
Book
Hardback
360 pages
978-90-04-26124-2 (ISBN)
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 Baehr, Philip Benedict, Susan Broomhall, Sarah Covington, Brecht Deseure, Sean Dunwoody, Marianne Eekhout, Gabriela Erdelyi, Dagmar Freist, Katharine Hodgkin, Jasmin Kilburn-Toppin, Erika Kuijpers, Johannes Mueller, Ulrich Niggemann, Alexandr Osipian, Judith Pollmann, Benjamin Schmidt, Jasper van der Steen
Contributors include: Andreas Baehr, Philip Benedict, Susan Broomhall, Sarah Covington, Brecht Deseure, Sean Dunwoody, Marianne Eekhout, Gabriela Erdelyi, Dagmar Freist, Katharine Hodgkin, Jasmin Kilburn-Toppin, Erika Kuijpers, Johannes Mueller, Ulrich Niggemann, Alexandr Osipian, Judith Pollmann, Benjamin Schmidt, Jasper van der Steen
Reviews / Votes
''This is [...] a valuable contribution to the genre of memory studies''.Brian G. H. Ditcham, University of Gillingham. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 45, No. 3, 2014, p. 752.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 241 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
685 gr
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978-90-04-26124-2 (9789004261242)
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Erika Kuijpers is a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University. She has published widely on the history of migration, literacy, and personal memories of the Dutch Revolt.
Judith Pollmann is professor of early modern Dutch history at Leiden University. She is the director of the NWO VICI project Tales of the Revolt. Memory, oblivion and identity in the Low Countries, 1566-1700.
Johannes Mueller is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History at Leiden University, where he is currently completing a dissertation on the memory cultures of Dutch exile networks in early modern Europe.
Jasper van der Steen is a PhD candidate at Leiden University's Institute for History. He is currently completing his dissertation on memory politics after the Revolt of the Netherlands.
Judith Pollmann is professor of early modern Dutch history at Leiden University. She is the director of the NWO VICI project Tales of the Revolt. Memory, oblivion and identity in the Low Countries, 1566-1700.
Johannes Mueller is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History at Leiden University, where he is currently completing a dissertation on the memory cultures of Dutch exile networks in early modern Europe.
Jasper van der Steen is a PhD candidate at Leiden University's Institute for History. He is currently completing his dissertation on memory politics after the Revolt of the Netherlands.
Content
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 Baehr
15. Permeable Memories. Family History and the Diaspora of Southern Netherlandish Exiles in the Seventeenth Century
Johannes Mueller
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
Index
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 Baehr
15. Permeable Memories. Family History and the Diaspora of Southern Netherlandish Exiles in the Seventeenth Century
Johannes Mueller
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
Index