Memory before Modernity
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English
ISBN
978-90-04-26124-2
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction. On the Early Modernity of Modern Memory
Part I Memory Politics and Memory Wars
1. The Usable Past in the Lemberg Armenian Community’s Struggle for Equal Rights, 1578–1654
2. A Contested Past. Memory Wars during the Twelve Years Truce (1609–21)
3. ‘You Will See Who They Are that Revile, and Lessen Your . . .
Glorious Deliverance’. The ‘Memory War’ about the
‘Glorious Revolution’
4. Civic and Confessional Memory in Conflict. Augsburg in the
Sixteenth Century
5. Tales of a Peasant Revolt. Taboos and Memories of 1514 in
Hungary
6. Shaping the Memory of the French Wars of Religion.
The First Centuries
Part Two Mediality
7. Celebrating a Trojan Horse. Memories of the Dutch Revolt in Breda, 1590–1650
8. ‘The Odious Demon from Across the Sea’. Oliver Cromwell, Memory and the Dislocations of Ireland
9. Material Memories of the Guildsmen. Crafting Identities in Early Modern London
10. Between Storytelling and Patriotic Scripture. The Memory Brokers of the Dutch Revolt
11. Lost in Time and Space? Glocal Memoryscapes in the Early Modern World
12. The Spaces of Memory and their Transmediations. On the Lives of Exotic Images and their Material Evocations
Part Three Personal Memory
13. Disturbing Memories. Narrating Experiences and Emotions of Distressing Events in the French Wars of Religion
14. Remembering Fear. The Fear of Violence and the Violence of Fear in Seventeenth-Century War Memories
15. Permeable Memories. Family History and the Diaspora of Southern Netherlandish Exiles in the Seventeenth Century
16. Women, Memory and Family History in Seventeenth-Century England
17. The Experience of Rupture and the History of Memory
Index
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