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Appropriating the Middle Ages : scholarship, politics, fraud / edited by Tom Shippey with Martin Arnold, associate editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in medievalism 0738-7164 ; 11.
- Studies in medievalism, 0738-7164 ; 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization, Medieval--Study and teaching (Higher).
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Medievalism--Political aspects--History.
- Medievalism.
- Learning and scholarship--Political aspects--History.
- Learning and scholarship.
- Middle Ages in literature.
- Middle Ages in art.
- Nationalism--History.
- Nationalism.
- History.
- Fraud--History.
- Fraud.
- Learning and scholarship--Political aspects.
- Europe--Intellectual life.
- Europe.
- Intellectual life.
- Great Britain--Intellectual life.
- Great Britain.
- United States--Intellectual life.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2001.
- Summary:
- This volume concentrates on the uses made of ancient tradition by rulers and politicians to establish their legitimacy.
- From early modern times rulers and politicians have sought to ground their legitimacy in ancient tradition -- which they often appropriated for their own purposes. The current issue of Studies in Medievalism presents a number of such cases, ranging from the rewriting of Mozart, and Merovingian history, for the King of Bavaria, to the anglicization of the medieval Welsh Mabinogion by the wife of an English ironmaster.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 085991626X
- OCLC:
- 47297613
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