Memory boxes : an experimental approach to cultural transfer in history, 1500-2000 / Topoi as a memory box / How to visualise an event that is not representable? : the topos of massacre in François Dubois' St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre / The topos of martyrdom as a memory box : the Book of Martyrs by John Foxe and the fresco cycle at San Tomaso di Canterbury / The topos of golden age in Friedrich Schlegel's notion of cultural transfer from antiquity to early nineteenth-century Germany / The making of a religious-political memory box / Personalities as a memory box / The personality of Queen Clotilde in early nineteenth-century France / Henry the Lion-Enrico Leone : a precious memory box of the House of Brunswick / Artefacts as a memory box / Becoming of a memory box : the Kalevala : Sung poetry, printed word and national identity / Diaries, material memory holders : creating a memory box / "We wanted a parliament but they gave us a stone" : the coronation stone of the Scots as a memory box in the twentieth century / Reflections on working with the concept of memory box