The quest for an appropriate past in literature, art and architecture / edited by Karl A. E. Enenkel and Konrad Adriaan Ottenheym.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Enenkel, Karl A.E., Editor.

Contributor:

Enenkel, K. A. E., editor.

Ottenheym, Konrad Adriaan, editor.

Series:

Intersections 60.

Intersections, 1568-1181 ; Volume 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts and history.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2018

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2019]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume explores the various strategies by which appropriate pasts were construed in scholarship, literature, art, and architecture in order to create “national”, regional, or local identities in late medieval and early modern Europe. Because authority was based on lineage, political and territorial claims were underpinned by historical arguments, either true or otherwise. Literature, scholarship, art, and architecture were pivotal media that were used to give evidence of the impressive old lineage of states, regions, or families. These claims were related not only to classical antiquity but also to other periods that were regarded as antiquities, such as the Middle Ages, especially the chivalric age. The authors of this volume analyse these intriguing early modern constructions of “antiquity” and investigate the ways in which they were applied in political, intellectual and artistic contexts in the period of 1400–1700. Contributors include: Barbara Arciszewska, Bianca De Divitiis, Karl Enenkel, Hubertus Günther, Thomas Haye, Harald Hendrix, Stephan Hoppe, Marc Laureys, Frédérique Lemerle, Coen Maas, Anne-Françoise Morel, Kristoffer Neville, Konrad Ottenheym, Yves Pauwels, Christian Peters, Christoph Pieper, David Rijser, Bernd Roling, Nuno Senos, Paul Smith, Pieter Vlaardingerbroek, and Matthew Walker.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Acknowledgements

Illustrations

Notes on the Editors

Notes on the Contributors

The Quest for an Appropriate Past: The Creation of National Identities in Early Modern Literature, Scholarship, Architecture, and Art / Karl Enenkel and Konrad Ottenheym

The Mediterranean

Claiming and Contesting Trojan Ancestry on Both Sides of the Bosporus – Epic Answers to an Ethnographic Dispute in Quattrocento Humanist Poetry / Christian Peters

Architecture, Poetry and Law: The Amphitheatre of Capua and the New Works Sponsored by the Local Élite / Bianca de Divitiis

A City in Quest of an Appropriate Antiquity: The Arena of Verona and Its Influence on Architectural Theory in the Early Modern Era / Hubertus Günther

Tradition and Originality in Raphael: The Stanza della Segnatura, the Middle Ages and Local Traditions / David Rijser

An Appropriate Past for Renaissance Portugal: André de Resende and the City of Évora / Nuno Senos

France

The Construction of a National Past in the Bella Britannica by Humbert of Montmoret (d. circa 1525) / Thomas Haye

Parody and Appropriation of the Past in the Grandes Chroniques Gargantuines and in Rabelais’s Pantagruel (1532) / Paul J. Smith

Antiquity and Modernity: Sixteenth- to Eighteenth-Century French Architecture / Frédérique Lemerle

The Roots of Philibert De l’Orme: Antiquity, Medieval Art, and Early Christian Architecture / Yves Pauwels

The Low Countries

From Chivalric Family Tree to “National” Gallery: The Portrait Series of the Counts of Holland, circa 1490–1650 / Karl Enenkel

Dousa’s Medieval Tournaments: Chivalry Enters the Age of Humanism? / Coen Maas

Living as Befits a Knight: New Castles in Seventeenth-Century Holland / Konrad Ottenheym

‘Non erubescat Hollandia’: Classical Embarrassment of Riches and the Construction of Local History in Hadrianus Junius’ Batavia / Coen Maas

Epigraphy and Blurring Senses of the Past in Early Modern Travelling Men of Letters: The Case of Arnoldus Buchelius / Harald Hendrix

‘Sine amore, sine odio partium’: Nicolaus Burgundius’ Historia Belgica (1629) and his Tacitean Quest for an Appropriate Past / Marc Laureys

The Mediaeval Prestige of Dutch Cities / Konrad Ottenheym

An Appropriated History: The Case of the Amsterdam Town Hall (1648–1667) / Pieter Vlaardingerbroek

The Holy Roman Empire

Germany’s Glory, Past and Present: Konrad Peutinger’s Sermones convivales de mirandis Germanie antiquitatibus and Antiquarian Philology / Christoph Pieper

Translating the Past: Local Romanesque Architecture in Germany and Its Fifteenth-Century Reinterpretation / Stephan Hoppe

The Babylonian Origins of Trier / Hubertus Günther

Poland and Sweden

History and Architecture in Pursuit of a Gothic Heritage / Kristoffer Neville

Early Modern Conceptualizations of Medieval History and Their Impact on Residential Architecture in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth / Barbara Arciszewska

Britain, Scotland, and Ireland

Writing about Romano-British Architecture in the Late Seventeenth Century / Matthew Walker

Preserving the Nation’s Zeal: Church Buildings and English Christian History in Stuart England / Anne-Françoise Morel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9789004378216

9004378219

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004378216 DOI

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access