This volume discusses a practical approach to cultural transfer and exchange through the concept of "memory box". Ideas of displacement, transfer, and cultural memory are explored through case studies from Scotland to Italy and Germany and from Finland and France to the American colonies. The authors develop an understanding of memory boxes as cultural constructions that are involved in the process of making and disputing memory - but which, simultaneously, are important agents for cultural transfer over space and time. This book emphasises "memory box" as an idea that allows us to study the c ...

Frontmatter -- Content -- Preface -- Memory Boxes an Experimental Approach to Cultural Transfer in History, 1500-2000 / Rogge, Jörg / Salmi, Hannu -- Topoi as a Memory Box / Müller-Bongard, Kristina / Nivala, Asko / Sarti, Cathleen / Schäfer, Alexandra -- How to Visualise an Event that is not Representable? The Topos of Massacre in François Dubois' St . Bartholomew's Day Massacre / Schäfer, Alexandra -- The Topos of Martyrdom as a Memory Box The Book of Martyrs by John Foxe and the Fresco Cycle at San Tomaso di Canterbury / Müller-Bongard, Kristina -- The Topos of Golden Age in Friedrich Schlegel's Notion of Cultural Transfer from Antiquity to Early Nineteenth- Century Germany / Nivala, Asko -- Providence The Making of a Religious-political Memory Box / Sarti, Cathleen -- Personalities as a Memory Box / Aali, Heta -- The Personality of Queen Clotilde in Early Nineteenth-Century France / Aali, Heta -- Henry the Lion -- Enrico Leone A Precious Memory Box of the House of Brunswick / Schnettger, Matthias -- Artefacts as a Memory Box / Perämäki, Anna-Leena -- Becoming of a Memory Box: the Kalevala Sung Poetry, Printed Word and National Identity / Saarelainen, Juhana -- Encapsulating Visions of Nationhood Finland (1911) as a Memory Box / Salmi, Hannu -- Diaries, Material Memory Holders Creating a Memory Box / Perämäki, Anna-Leena -- "We wanted a parliament but they gave us a stone" The Coronation Stone of the Scots as a Memory Box in the Twentieth Century / Rogge, Jörg -- An Epilogue Reflections on Working with the Concept of Memory Box / Sarti, Cathleen / Schäfer, Alexandra -- List of Contributors

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