New Special Issue Alert:
A special issue of Daphnis (50.1) has just been published, entitled:
Neighbours in the Landscape of Memory. Encounters – Juxtapositions – Mutual Influences,
edited by Lucie Doležalová and Sabine Seelbach
This is the first issue in our jubilee year –
Daphnis:
Journal of German Literature and Culture of the Early Modern Period (1400-1750) / Zeitschrift für deutsche Literatur und Kultur der Frühen Neuzeit
Turned 50!!
In this jubilee issue:
Early-modern scholars practiced the ars memorativa, which contained a collection of techniques to improve their memory. This is because culture is stored in human memory, where memory units are connected with new experiences and older memories, producing an emergent layer of meanings.
https://www.brill.com/view/journals/daph/50/1/daph.50.issue-1.xml
Articles:
Editorial / Tobias Bulang
Neighbours in the Landscape of Memory: Encounters – Juxtapositions – Mutual Influence. Preface / Sabine Seelbach und Lucie Doležalová
Old Fiddle, Good Tune. Transmissions and Transformations of a Sermon through Time and Memory / Marjorie Burghart
Spaces of Memory. A Metaphorical Field in Petrarch’s Latin Works / Andrea Torre
The “Millstätter Predigten” (Millstatt Sermons), Petrus Berchorius, and Mechthild of Magdeburg. Neighbors in the Benedictine Library in Millstatt? / Sabine Seelbach
Shedding Light on the Textual Genesis of Jacobus Publicius’ “Ars memorie” (ms London, bl, Add. 28805) / Luis Merino Jerez
Teaching the Art of Memory. A Case Study on Jacobus Publicius / Angelika Kemper
The Art of Memory Copied by Johannes de Fredelan in 1461. A Contribution to the Reception of the Memoria fecunda Treatise / Lucie Doležalová
Enjoy and wishing you a healthy and fun-filled 2022!
Best wishes,
Masja