Memory before Modernity: Practices of Memory in Early Modern Europe

Acknowledgements .......................................................................................... ix
List of Contributors .......................................................................................... xi
List of Illustrations ............................................................................................ xvii
Introduction. On the Early Modernity of Modern Memory ................ 1
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 ..................................................... 27
Alexandr Osipian
2. A Contested Past. Memory Wars during the Twelve Years Truce
(1609-21) ........................................................................................................ 45
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’ .................................................................................. 63
Ulrich Niggemann
4. Civic and Confessional Memory in Conflict. Augsburg in the
Sixteenth Century ....................................................................................... 77
Sean F. Dunwoody
5. Tales of a Peasant Revolt. Taboos and Memories of 1514 in
Hungary .......................................................................................................... 93
Gabriella Erdélyi
6. Shaping the Memory of the French Wars of Religion.
The First Centuries ..................................................................................... 111
Philip Benedict


PART II
MEDIALITY
7. Celebrating a Trojan Horse. Memories of the Dutch Revolt in
Breda, 1590–1650 ........................................................................................ 129
Marianne Eekhout
8. ‘The Odious Demon from Across the Sea’. Oliver Cromwell,
Memory and the Dislocations of Ireland ........................................... 149
Sarah Covington
9. Material Memories of the Guildsmen. Crafting Identities in
Early Modern London .............................................................................. 165
Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin
10. Between Storytelling and Patriotic Scripture. The Memory
Brokers of the Dutch Revolt ................................................................... 183
Erika Kuijpers
11. Lost in Time and Space? Glocal Memoryscapes in the Early
Modern World ............................................................................................ 203
Dagmar Freist
12. The Spaces of Memory and their Transmediations. On the
Lives of Exotic Images and their Material Evocations ................... 223
Benjamin Schmidt


PART III
PERSONAL MEMORY
13. Disturbing Memories. Narrating Experiences and Emotions of
Distressing Events in the French Wars of Religion ......................... 253
Susan Broomhall
14. Remembering Fear. The Fear of Violence and the Violence of
Fear in Seventeenth-Century War Memories ................................... 269
Andreas Bähr
15. Permeable Memories. Family History and the Diaspora of
Southern Netherlandish Exiles in the Seventeenth Century ....... 283
Johannes Müller
16. Women, Memory and Family History in Seventeenth-Century
England ......................................................................................................... 297
Katharine Hodgkin
17. The Experience of Rupture and the History of Memory ............... 315
Brecht Deseure and Judith Pollmann

Index ..................................................................................................................... 331