Publication details
Erinnerungsorte der Liechtenstein. Einleitende Thesen
| Title in English | The Places of Liechtenstein Memory. An Introductory Thesis |
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Liechtensteinische Erinnerungsorte in den böhmischen Ländern |
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| Citation | |
| Field | History |
| Keywords | places of memory; culture of memory; the Liechtenstein family; Karel z Lichtenštejna (Charles I of Liechtenstein); Early modern period; nobility; post-White Mountain confiscations; burial strategy |
| Description | The Liechtenstein memory continuously overlaps the enclosed memory dimension of the aristocratic family and operates in an open space as a general memory. It impacts the general memory and is in turn influenced by it. The general historical memory reacts to the Liechtenstein memory and the Liechtenstein memory reacts to the general memory, which on both levels creates various kinds of memory synthesis and simultaneously also a clash of memories along with various types of deconstructions and reconstructions of memory. The places of Liechtenstein memory thus represent a relatively complex formation. They apply also to the places of Liechtenstein memory as a 'god in human mind' and also a 'point on the map' (whether it concerns the construction of the memory of the Liechtensteins or a construction of the Liechtensteins’ memory). As foundational phenomena in molding the Liechtenstein family memory were for a more detailed analysis chosen the post-White Mountain confiscations (as a historical event connected by historiography and in general understanding with the rule of Prince Charles I of Liechtenstein) and the tomb in Vranov u Brna (as a crucial element of the Liechtenstein burial strategy and construction of their long term memory. |