Memory Before Modernity - Practices of Memory in Early Modern Europe

This volume examines the practice of memory in early modern Europe, showing that this was already a multimedia affair with many political uses, and affecting people at all levels of society; many pre-modern memory practices persist until today.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Erika Kuijpers, Johannes Müller, Judith Pollmann, Jasper van der Steen
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.12.2013
• EAN: 9789004261242
• ISBN: 978-90-04-26124-2
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 685 g
• Series: Studies in Medieval and Reform
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)