Memory Boxes: An Experimental Approach to Cultural Transfer in History, 1500-2000

Content\nPreface\nMemory Boxes. An Experimental Approach to Cultural Transfer in History, 1500–2000\nTopoi\n	Topoi as a Memory Box\n	How to Visualise an Event that is not Representable? The Topos of Massacre in François Dubois’ St. Bartholomew\'s Day Massacre\n	The Topos of Martyrdom as a Memory Box. The Book of Martyrs by John Foxe and the Fresco Cycle at San Tomaso di Canterbury\n	The Topos of Golden Age in Friedrich Schlegel’s Notion of Cultural Transfer from Antiquity to Early Nineteenth-Century Germany\n	Providence. The Making of a Religious-political Memory Box\nPersonalities\n	Personalities as a Memory Box\n	The Personality of Queen Clotilde in Early Nineteenth- Century France\n	Henry the Lion – Enrico Leone. A Precious Memory Box of the House of Brunswick\nArtefacts\n	Artefacts as a Memory Box\n	Becoming of a Memory Box: the Kalevala. Sung Poetry, Printed Word and National Identity\n	Encapsulating Visions of Nationhood. Finland (1911) as a Memory Box\n	Diaries, Material Memory Holders. Creating a Memory Box\n	“We wanted a parliament but they gave us a stone”. The Coronation Stone of the Scots as a Memory Box in the Twentieth Century\n	An Epilogue. Reflections on Working with the Concept of Memory Box\nList of Contributors