Historiography and the shaping of regional identity in Europe : regions in Clio's looking glass / edited by Dick E.H. de Boer and Luís Adão da Fonseca.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boer, D. E. H. de (Dick Edward Herman de), 1947- editor.

Adão de Fonseca, Luís, editor.

Series:

Early European research ; v. 16.

Early European Research ; volume 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--Historiography.

Europe.

Group identity--Europe--History.

Group identity.

Historiography.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols [2020]

Summary:

This volume describes real and mental regions as the historical undertone that destined a changing Europe during the last millennium.00Over the centuries, historiography - in many different forms - became an important vehicle by which to create, articulate, and express the existence, awareness, and characteristics of Europe?s regions. Be it the histories of noble families that were important stakeholders in a region, urban histories describing the developing urban networks through which regions could function, dynastic histories emphasizing the relationship between ruler and region, or hagiographies describing holy men and women and their veneration as focal points within regions - all of them represented and reflected identities within an understood spatial and or mental sphere. Historiography can therefore help us to understand the way in which regions were seen from within and from without, and to understand the patterns and dynamics of regional cohesion. Moreover, it sheds light on the dialectic between nation and region, and on the relationship between the regional sphere and the wider (inter)national sphere.00The authors of this volume look at individual European regions from different points of view, using historiography as a lens. They analyse the ways in which history as a construct has played a role in establishing regional identity, providing examples of the ways in which recording, interpreting, and recounting the history of regions through the ages has been instrumental in shaping these regions. The first section of the volume explores regional identity in medieval and early modern historiography; the second shows how, in the age of the invention and triumph of the European nation-state (the long nineteenth century), historiography of a new kind was applied for a deliberate creation of regional identity, or at least reflected the need for a historical confirmation of identities.

This volume describes real and mental regions as the historical undertone that destined a changing Europe during the last millennium. Over the centuries, historiography - in many different forms - became an important vehicle by which to create, articulate, and express the existence, awareness, and characteristics of Europe's regions. Be it the histories of noble families that were important stakeholders in a region, urban histories describing the developing urban networks through which regions could function, dynastic histories emphasizing the relationship between ruler and region, or hagiographies describing holy men and women and their veneration as focal points within regions - all of them represented and reflected identities within an understood spatial and or mental sphere. Historiography can therefore help us to understand the way in which regions were seen from within and from without, and to understand the patterns and dynamics of regional cohesion. Moreover, it sheds light on the dialectic between nation and region, and on the relationship between the regional sphere and the wider (inter)national sphere. The authors of this volume look at individual European regions from different points of view, using historiography as a lens. They analyse the ways in which history as a construct has played a role in establishing regional identity, providing examples of the ways in which recording, interpreting, and recounting the history of regions through the ages has been instrumental in shaping these regions. The first section of the volume explores regional identity in medieval and early modern historiography; the second shows how, in the age of the invention and triumph of the European nation-state (the long nineteenth century), historiography of a new kind was applied for a deliberate creation of regional identity, or at least reflected the need for a historical confirmation of identities.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Regional Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Historiography

Boemi and the Others: Shaping the Regional Identity of Medieval Bohemia between the Twelfth and the Fourteenth Centuries / Jana Fantysova-Matejkova

From the Duchy of Few to the Homeland of Many: Regional Identity in Silesian Medieval and Early Modern Historiography / Przemyslaw Wiszewski

Chronicles of the Towns of Upper Lusatia: Reflecting the Political and Cultural Identity of the Region? / Jan Zdichynec

From Principality into Province: The Historiography of the Guelders-Lower Rhine Region from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries / Job Weststrate

Transylvania in the Historical Writing of Nicolaus Olahus, Georg Reicherstoffer, and Antonius Verancsics / Cornelia Popa-Gorjanu

pt. II The Creation of Regional Identity in Nineteenth-Century Historiography

Post-Medieval Appropriation of Regional Sainthood in Scandinavia: St Knud Lavard and St Olav / Nils Holger Petersen

Conceptions of History and Imagined Regions in the Baltic Provinces in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries / Aivar Poldvee

National Regionalisms before Political Ideologies: Schleswig-Holstein in 1848 / Michael Bregnsbo

Constructing and Deconstructing the Medieval Origin of Catalonia / Flocel Sabate

Inventing Limburg (the Netherlands): Territory, History, and Identity / Ad Knotter.

Introduction : regions in Clio's looking glass / Dick E. H. de Boer and Luís Adão da Fonseca, page 15

Regions and historiography : reflections on the ways in which different types of historiography shaped and changed regional identity / Dick E. H. de Boer and Luís Adão da Fonseca, page 33

Boemi and the others : shaping the regional identity of medieval Bohemia between the twelfth and the fourteenth centuries / Jana Fantysová-Matějková, page 69

From the duchy of few to the homeland of many : regional identity in Silesian medieval and early modern historiography / Przemysław Wiszewski, page 91

Chronicles of the towns of Upper Lusatia : reflecting the political and cultural identity of the region? / Lenka Bobková, Petr Hrachovec, and Jan Zdichynec, page 117

From principality to province : the historiography of the Guelders-Lower Rhine region from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries / Job Weststrate, page 145

Transylvania in the historical writing of Nicolaus Olahus, Georg Reicherstoffer, and Antonius Verancsics / Cornelia Popa-Gorjanu, page 165

Post-medieval appropriation of regional sainthood in Scandinavia : St Knud Lavard and St Olav / Nils Holger Petersen, page 189

Conceptions of history and imagined regions in the Baltic provinces in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Linda Kaljundi and Aivar Põldvee, page 209

National regionalisms before political ideologies : Schleswig-Holstein in 1848 / Michael Bregnsbo, page 237

Constructing and deconstructing the medieval origin of Catalonia / Flocel Sabaté, page 257

Inventing Limburg (the Netherlands) : territory, history, and identity / Ad Knotter, page 283.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9782503590714

2503590713

OCLC:

1205590737

Publisher Number:

99989174473