Doing Memory: Medieval Saints and Heroes and Their Afterlives in the Baltic Sea Region (19th–20th centuries)

This anthology is about the representations and uses of medieval saints, heroes, and heroic events as elements of popular, local, and national culture during the 19th and 20th centuries in the Baltic Sea region: Scandinavia, Finland, Baltic countries, Northern Germany and North-Western Russia. Autho...

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Autor Corporativo: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG. Verlag
Otros Autores: Heß, Cordelia 1977- (Editor) ; Strenga, Gustavs 1981- (Editor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
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WorldCat: WorldCat
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publicado: Berlin De Gruyter [2024]
En:Año: 2024
(Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar:B Ostseeraum / Edad Media / Santa / Culto a los héroes / Consciencia nacional Motivo) / Memoria colectiva / Identidad regional / Historia 1900-1945
Otras palabras clave:B Heroes, saints, Middle Ages, Memory Studies
B LITERARY CRITICISM / Generales / European
Acceso en línea: Cover (Publisher)
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Rights Information:CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Sumario:This anthology is about the representations and uses of medieval saints, heroes, and heroic events as elements of popular, local, and national culture during the 19th and 20th centuries in the Baltic Sea region: Scandinavia, Finland, Baltic countries, Northern Germany and North-Western Russia. Authors examine the processes of how medieval saints and heroes have been remembered, commemorated, interpreted, used, and reflected during modernity, and by whom. The focus of the anthology is on "doing" memory as a practice that commemorated the past and shaped spaces and identities in the present. It approaches the memory of saints and heroes, for example, Swedish Saints Birgitta and Eric, Danish Saint Knud, Kyivan Princess Olga, Swedish military leader in Finland Tyrgils Knutsson, Liv/Latvian warrior Imanta and Holsatian count Gerhard III as a shared heritage and as part of national, local and popular culture. The anthology contributes to the understanding of the Baltic Sea region through the study of saints, cults and heroic representations in the longue durée between the Middle Ages and modernity. It also adds nuance to the use of popular concepts of memory studies, particularly an update of Pierre Nora’s lieux de mémoire
Descripción Física:1 Online-Ressource (X, 300 p.)
ISBN:978-3-11-135119-3
Acceso:Open Access
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/9783111351193