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.

Europe--Intellectual life--19th century.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (450 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Across the nineteenth century European history, philology, archaeology, art, and architecture turned from a common classical vocabulary and ideology to images of pasts and origins drawn primarily from the Middle Ages. 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, focus on 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. Contributors include: Walter Pohl, Ian Wood, Sverre Bagge, Maciej Janowski, Sir David Wilson, Anders Andrén, Ernő Marosi, Carmen Popescu, Ahmet Ersoy, Michael Werner, Joep Leerssen, R. Howard Bloch, Pavlína Rychterová, Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri, Stefan Detchev, Florin Curta, and Péter Langó.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-24487-5

OCLC:

857711491

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004244870 DOI