Manufacturing a past for the present : forgery and authenticity in medievalist texts and objects in nineteenth-century Europe / edited by János M. Bak, Patrick J. Geary and Gábor Klaniczay.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bak, János M., editor.

Geary, Patrick J., 1948- editor.

Klaniczay, Gábor, editor.

Series:

National cultivation of culture ; v. 7.

National cultivation of culture ; volume 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literary forgeries and mystifications--History.

Literary forgeries and mystifications.

History.

Forgery of manuscripts--History.

Forgery of manuscripts.

Forgery of antiquities--History.

Forgery of antiquities.

Forgery--History.

Forgery.

Medievalism--Europe--History--19th century.

Medievalism.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 325 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Summary:

In search of specific national traditions nineteenth-century artists and scholars did not shy of manipulating texts and objects or even outright manufacturing them. The essays edited by János M. Bak, Patrick J. Geary and Gábor Klaniczay explore the various artifacts from outright forgeries to fruits of poetic phantasy, while also discussing the volatile notion of authenticity and the multiple claims for it in the age. Contributors include: Pavlína Rychterová, Péter Dávidházi, Pertti Anttonen, László Szörényi, János M. Bak, Nóra Berend, Benedek Láng, Igor P. Medvedev, Dan D.Y. Shapira, János György Szilágyi, Cristina La Rocca, Giedre Mickunaite, Johan Hegardt and Sándor Radnóti. Book jacket.

Contents:

The manuscripts of Grunberg and Koniginhof : romantic lies about the glorious past of the Czech nation / Pavlina Rychterova

To authenticate a manuscript : the case of Toldy and Hanka, hermeneutically reconsidered / Peter Davidhazi

The Kalevala and the authenticity debate / Pertti Anttonen

Janos Arany's Csaba trilogy and Arnold Ipolyi's Hungarian mythology / Laszlo Szorenyi

From the anonymous Gesta to The flight of Zalan by Vorosmarty / Janos M. Bak

Forging the Cuman law, forging an identity / Nora Berend

Invented Middle Ages in nineteenth-century Hungary : the forgeries of Samuel Literati Nemes / Benedek Lang

Excellent scholar, excellent forger : the case of Karl Benedict Hase / Igor P. Medvedev

On Firkowicz, forgeries and forging Jewish identities / Dan D.Y. Shapira

Wisest is time : ancient vase forgeries / Janos Gyorgy Szilagyi

Agilulf, "the Nonexistent Knight" and the forging of the Italian "Germanic" past / Cristina La Rocca

Imagining the real : material evidence and participatory past in nineteenth-century Lithuania / Giedre Mickunaite

Time stopped : the open-air museum Skansen of Arthur Hazelius / Johan Hegardt

The New York Cloisters : a forgery? / Sandor Radnoti.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004276802

9004276807

OCLC:

891941722

Publisher Number:

99961370322