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arly modern collections and armouries embodied Platonian and Augustinian ideas about the construction of memory. Beginning in 1570, Archduke Ferdinand II of, or Armoury of Heroes, it explicitly presented the armours of Habsburg princes, allies, and renowned commanders – ranging from mercenary captains to Ottoman Sultans – as sites of memory that recalled their deeds and identities.