How to Visualise an Event that is not Representable? The Topos of Massacre in François Dubois’ St . Bartholomew's Day Massacre

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Content 5
3. Preface 9
4. Memory Boxes an Experimental Approach to Cultural Transfer in History, 1500–2000 11
5. Topoi as a Memory Box 21
6. How to Visualise an Event that is not Representable? The Topos of Massacre in François Dubois’ St . Bartholomew's Day Massacre 27
7. The Topos of Martyrdom as a Memory Box The Book of Martyrs by John Foxe and the Fresco Cycle at San Tomaso di Canterbury 55
8. The Topos of Golden Age in Friedrich Schlegel’s Notion of Cultural Transfer from Antiquity to Early Nineteenth- Century Germany 79
9. Providence The Making of a Religious-political Memory Box 93
10. Personalities as a Memory Box 109
11. The Personality of Queen Clotilde in Early Nineteenth-Century France 113
12. Henry the Lion – Enrico Leone A Precious Memory Box of the House of Brunswick 131
13. Artefacts as a Memory Box 151
14. Becoming of a Memory Box: the Kalevala Sung Poetry, Printed Word and National Identity 155
15. Encapsulating Visions of Nationhood Finland (1911) as a Memory Box 177
16. Diaries, Material Memory Holders Creating a Memory Box 195
17. “We wanted a parliament but they gave us a stone” The Coronation Stone of the Scots as a Memory Box in the Twentieth Century 219
18. An Epilogue Reflections on Working with the Concept of Memory Box 239
19. List of Contributors 241