Memory Before Modernity: Practices of Memory in Early Modern Europe

By Judith Pollmann, Johannes Müller, Erika Kuijpers

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 B hr, Philip Benedict, Susan Broomhall, Sarah Covington, Brecht Deseure, Sean Dunwoody, Marianne Eekhout, Gabriela Erd lyi, Dagmar Freist, Katharine Hodgkin, Jasmin Kilburn-Toppin, Erika Kuijpers, Johannes M ller, Ulrich Niggemann, Alexandr Osipian, Judith Pollmann, Benjamin Schmidt, Jasper van der Steen

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004261249
• ISBN13: 9789004261242
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"