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Urban Space as Erinnerungslandschaft. The Case of Lemberg/Lwów/Lvov/Lviv

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2013

Tamás Sajó*
Affiliation:
Studiolum Publisher, Petőfi 81, 2141 Csömör, Hungary. E-mail: tamas@studiolum.com

Abstract

This paper examines the changes of the memorials in Lviv's representative Liberty Avenue throughout the twentieth century as they reflect the changing regimes of memory of the successive political systems, from the Habsburg Empire through the Republic of Poland, the Soviet and German occupation, the Soviet Union to the independent Ukraine.

Type
Focus: Regimes of Memory
Copyright
Copyright © Academia Europaea 2013 

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References and Notes

1. The theme was introduced in Yates, F. (1966) The Art of Memory (Chicago: Chicago University Press), for the interpretation of Giordano Bruno's ars memoriae. Since then it has been exhaustively examined not only in the history of art and ideas of the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries (most recently L. Bulzoni (2001) La stanza della memoria. Modelli letterari e iconografici nell'età della stampa (Turin: Einaudi)), but also in the late Middle Ages (M. Carruthers (1990) The Book of Memory. A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press); A. Bernat Vistarini and T. Sajó (2013) Arte de recordar. Imágenes del Evangelio (Palma: Olañeta)) and even in Ming-era China, where it was introduced by the Jesuit missionaries received as scholars in Emperor Kangxi's court (J. D. Spence (1985) The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci (London: Faber & Faber)). A good modern summary of the topic is D. Draaisma (2000). Metaphors of Memory. A history of ideas about the mind (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).Google Scholar
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