Manufacturing Middle Ages : entangled history of medievalism in nineteenth-century Europe / edited by Patrick J. Geary and Gábor Klaniczay.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Geary, Patrick J., 1948-

Klaniczay, Gábor.

Series:

National cultivation of culture ; v. 6.

National cultivation of culture, 1876-5645 ; volume 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Medievalism.

Civilization, Medieval--Influence.

Civilization, Medieval.

History.

Europe--Intellectual life--19th century.

Europe.

Intellectual life.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (450 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Across the nineteen century, European history, philology, archeology art, and architecture turned from a common classical vocabulary and ideology to images of pasts and origins drawn primarily from the Middle Age. The result was a paradox, as scholars and artists, schooled in the same pan-European vocabularies and methodologies nevertheless sought to discover through them unique and, frequently, oppositional national identities. These essays, edited by Patrick J. Geary and Gábor Klaniczay, discuss this all-European phenomenon with a special focus on Scandinavia and East-Central Europe, bearing witness to the inextricable links between cultural and scientific engagement, the search for national identity, and political agendas in the long nineteenth century that made the search for archaic origins an entangled history. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part One. Medievalism in nineteenth-century historiography

National origin narratives in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy / Walter Pohl

The uses and abuses of barbarian invasions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Ian N. Wood

Oehlenschlaeger and Ibsen: national revival in drama and history in Denmark and Norway c.1800-1860 / Sverre Bagge

Romantic historiography as a sociology of liberty: Joachim Lelewel and his contemporaries / Maciej Janowski

Part Two. Medievalism in nineteenth-century architecture

The roots of medievalism in North-West Europe: national romanticism, architecture, literature / David M. Wilson

Medieval and neo-medieval buildings in Scandinavia / Anders Andren

Between Slavs and old Bulgars: 'ancestors', 'race' and identity in late nineteenth-century Bulgaria / Stefan Detchev

With brotherly love: the Czech beginnings of medieval archaeology in Bulgaria and Ukraine / Florin Curta

The study of the archaeological finds of the tenth-century Carpathian Basin as national archaeology: early nineteenth-century views / Peter Lango.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

Other Format:

Print version: Manufacturing Middle Ages : entangled history of medievalism in nineteenth-century Europe.

ISBN:

9789004244870

OCLC:

857711491

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.