Erkennen und Erinnern in Kunst und Literatur

The volume assembles articles taking an interdisciplinary perspective on problems of medieval studies research into the concept of memoria, the humanist culture of memoria, and remembrance as thematized in recent and contemporary literature. The studies focus first on two major topics: a) the problem of what is meant by 'cultural memory', how it ties in with identity, and the way this concept has changed through the ages; and b) fictionality. The rest of the volume is given over to a discussion of the relation between remembrance and apperception, a subject only given marginal attention in the recent research literature.