Memory before Modernity

Erika Kuijpers is a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University. She has published widely on the history of migration, literacy, and personal memories of the Dutch Revolt.Judith Pollmann is professor of early modern Dutch history at Leiden University. She is the director of the NWO VICI project Tales of the Revolt. Memory, oblivion and identity in the Low Countries, 1566-1700. Johannes Müller is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History at Leiden University, where he is currently completing a dissertation on the memory cultures of Dutch exile networks in early modern Europe.Jasper van der Steen is a PhD candidate at Leiden University’s Institute for History. He is currently completing his dissertation on memory politics after the Revolt of the Netherlands.

• AcknowledgementsList of Contributors List of IllustrationsIntroduction. On the Early Modernity of Modern Memory .Judith Pollmann and Erika KuijpersPART I — MEMORY POLITICS AND MEMORY WARS1. The Usable Past in the Lemberg Armenian Community’s Struggle for Equal Rights, 1578–1654 Alexandr Osipian2. A Contested Past. Memory Wars during the Twelve Years Truce (1609–21) Jasper van der Steen3. ‘You Will See Who They Are that Revile, and Lessen Your Glorious Deliverance’. The ‘Memory War’ about the ‘Glorious Revolution’ Ulrich Niggemann4. Civic and Confessional Memory in Conflict. Augsburg in the Sixteenth Century Sean F. Dunwoody5. Tales of a Peasant Revolt. Taboos and Memories of 1514 in Hungary Gabriella Erdélyi6. Shaping the Memory of the French Wars of Religion. The First Centuries Philip BenedictPART II — MEDIALITY7. Celebrating a Trojan Horse. Memories of the Dutch Revolt in Breda, 1590–1650 Marianne Eekhout8. ‘The Odious Demon from Across the Sea’. Oliver Cromwell, Memory and the Dislocations of Ireland Sarah Covington9. Material Memories of the Guildsmen. Crafting Identities in Early Modern London .Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin10. Between Storytelling and Patriotic Scripture. The Memory Brokers of the Dutch Revolt Erika Kuijpers11. Lost in Time and Space? Glocal Memoryscapes in the Early Modern World Dagmar Freist12. The Spaces of Memory and their Transmediations. On the Lives of Exotic Images and their Material Evocations Benjamin SchmidtPART III — PERSONAL MEMORY13. Disturbing Memories. Narrating Experiences and Emotions of Distressing Events in the French Wars of Religion Susan Broomhall14. Remembering Fear. The Fear of Violence and the Violence of Fear in Seventeenth-Century War Memories Andreas Bähr15. Permeable Memories. Family History and the Diaspora of Southern Netherlandish Exiles in the Seventeenth Century Johannes Müller16. Women, Memory and Family History in Seventeenth-Century England Katharine Hodgkin17. The Experience of Rupture and the History of Memory Brecht Deseure and Judith PollmannIndex

‘’This is […] a valuable contribution to the genre of memory studies’’.Brian G. H. Ditcham, University of Gillingham. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 45, No. 3, 2014, p. 752.