Multiple antiquities, multiple modernities : ancient histories in nineteenth century European cultures / Gábor Klaniczay, Michael Werner, Ottó Gecser (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Klaniczay, Gábor.

Werner, Michael, 1946-

Gecser, Ottó.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical philology--Europe--History--19th century.

History, Modern.

Historiography.

Classical philology.

History.

Europe--Historiography--19th century.

History, Modern--19th century--Historiography.

Europe--Civilization--Classical influences.

Europe.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

611 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt ; New York : Campus Verlag, [2011]

Summary:

"Antiquity, as the term has been understood and used over the centuries by scholars, political and religious figures, and ordinary citizens, is far from a single, monolithic concept. Rather than reflecting a stable, shared understanding about the past and its meaning, the idea of antiquity is instead varying and multiple, taking on different meanings and deployed to different effects in those context in which it is being considered. In this volume, historians and archaeologists from a wide range of specialties offer a comparative assessment of the multiple perceptions of antiquity that have shaped modern European cultures and national identities, using a new methodological approach, histoire croisée, which considers these questions in the light of cultural diversity across Europe."--P. [4] of cover.

Contents:

The general framework. Philhellenism, cosmopolitanism, nationalism / Glenn W. Most

We and the Greeks / François Hartog

Historiography and philology. Classical philology and the making of modernity in Germany / Pierre Judet de La Combe

Philology in Germany : textual or cultural scholarship? / Michael Werner

Classical scholarship in nineteenth-century Hungary : a case study in histoire croiseé

Zsigmond Ritoók

Reshaping the "classical tradition" to question the European political order : PolIsh case studies / Jerzy Axer

From Historia Magistra Vitae to history as empirical experimentation of progress / Chryssanthi Avlami

National antiquities in East-Central Europe : three variations on a leading theme / Mónika Baár

The myth of Scythian origin and the cult of Attila in the nineteenth century / Gábor Klaniczay

Differentiation in entanglement : debates on antiquity, ethnogenesis and identity in nineteenth-century Bulgaria / Diana Mishkova

Relocating Ithaca : alternative antiquities in modern Bulgarian political discourse / Balázs Trencsényi

Archaeology and historiography. The "antiquitates" of the Greco-Roman world and their effect on antiquarian thought in Europe from the Renaissance to the early nineteenth century / Alain Schnapp

Contested origins : French and German views of a shared archaeological heritage in Lorraine / Bonnie Effros

From ruins to heritage : the past perfect and the idealized antiquity in North Africa / Nabila Oulebsir

A periphery on the periphery of the ancient world : the discovery of Nubia in the nineteenth century / László Török

Disciplinary identity and autonomy at the beginnings of archaeology in Romania / Gheorghe Alexandru Niculescu

Entangled histories in South-East Europe : memory and archaeology / Božidar Slapšak

Entangled objects, entangled scales. Quest for Homer(s) between philology, poetry, and ethnography : appropriations of antiquity in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Balkans / Svetlana Slapšak

Illyrian heroes, Roman emperors and Christian martyrs : the construction of a Croatian archaeology between Rome and Vienna, 1815-1918 / Daniel Baric

The Orient's obtuse antiquity / Aziz Al-Azmeh

From republican to imperial : the survival and perception of antiquity in American thought / Tibor Frank

Cultural appropriation and social diffusion of antiquity. Goethe and Homer / Hendrik Birus

Karl Ottfried Müller and the "patriotic" study of religion / Éva Kocziszky

Ex Ossibus Ultor : Virgil, Ezekiel and the transformation of the Polish national idea after 1795 / Maciej Janowski

The myth of Sparta in Juliusz Słowacki and Cyprian Norwid's dramas : romantic reinterpretation of Greek heritage

the Polish variant / Maria Kalinowska

Classical philology in Hungary in the second half of the nineteenth century and the reception of classical Greek theater / György Karsai

Classical rhetoric between public education and the education of the public in nineteenth-century Hungary / Ottó Gecser.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783593391014

3593391015

OCLC:

457149399