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 ; contributors, Pertti Anttonen [and fifteen others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bak, János M., editor.

Geary, Patrick J., 1948- editor.

Klaniczay, Gábor, editor.

Anttonen, Pertti, contributor.

Series:

National cultivation of culture ; Volume 7.

National Cultivation of Culture, 1876-5645 ; Volume 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literary forgeries and mystifications--History.

Literary forgeries and mystifications.

Forgery of manuscripts--History.

Forgery of manuscripts.

Forgery of antiquities--History.

Forgery of antiquities.

Forgery--History.

Forgery.

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

Medievalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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, Giedrė Mickūnaitė, Johan Hegardt and Sándor Radnóti.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

1 The Manuscripts of Grünberg and Königinhof: Romantic Lies about the Glorious Past of the Czech Nation / Pavlína Rychterová

2 To Authenticate a Manuscript: The Case of Toldy and Hanka, Hermeneutically Reconsidered / Péter Dávidházi

3 The Kalevala and the Authenticity Debate / Pertti Anttonen

4 János Arany’s Csaba Trilogy and Arnold Ipolyi’s Hungarian Mythology / László Szörényi

5 From the Anonymous Gesta to the Flight of Zalán by Vörösmarty / János M. Bak

6 Forging the Cuman Law, Forging an Identity / Nora Berend

7 Invented Middle Ages in Nineteenth-century Hungary. The Forgeries of Sámuel Literáti Nemes / Benedek Láng

8 Excellent Scholar—Excellent Forger: The Case of Karl Benedict Hase / Igor P. Medvedev

9 On Firkowicz, Forgeries and Forging Jewish Identities / Dan D. Y. Shapira

10 Wisest is Time: Ancient Vase Forgeries / János György Szilágyi

11 Agilulf, “The Nonexistent Knight” and the Forging of the Italian “Germanic” Past / Cristina La Rocca

12 Imagining the Real: Material Evidence and Participatory Past in Nineteenth-Century Lithuania / Giedrė Mickūnaitė

13 Time Stopped. The Open-air Museum Skansen of Artur Hazelius / Johan Hegardt

14 The New York Cloisters: A Forgery? / Sándor Radnóti

Index of Proper Names.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-27681-5

OCLC:

895257168

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004276819 DOI