Ambitious antiquities, famous forebears : constructions of a glorious past in the early modern Netherlands and in Europe / Karl A.E. Enenkel, Konrad A. Ottenheym ; translated by Alexander C. Thomson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Enenkel, K. A. E., author.

Ottenheym, Koen, author.

Contributor:

Thomson, Alexander C., translator.

Series:

Brill's Studies in Intellectual History; volume307/41.

Brill's Studies in Intellectual History; volume307/41

Standardized Title:

Oudheid als ambitie. English

Language:

Dutch

English

Subjects (All):

Classical antiquities--Study and teaching--Netherlands.

Classical antiquities.

Classical antiquities--Political aspects--Netherlands.

Classicists--Attitudes.

Classicists.

Arts, Classical--Influence.

Arts, Classical.

Civilization, Modern--Classical influences.

Civilization, Modern.

Classical antiquities--Study and teaching--Europe.

Classical antiquities--Political aspects--Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (443 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Language Note:

In English, translated from the original Dutch.

Summary:

This monograph studies the constructions of ‘impressive’ historical descent manufactured to create ‘national’, regional, or local antiquities in early modern Europe (1500-1700), especially the Netherlands. This was a period characterised by important political changes and therefore by an increased need for legitimation; a need which was met using historical claims. Literature, scholarship, art and architecture were pivotal media that were used to furnish evidence of the impressively old lineage of states, regions or families. These claims related not only to Classical antiquity (in the generally-known sense) but also to other periods that were regarded as periods of antiquity, such as the chivalric age. The authors of this volume analyse these intriguing early modern constructions of appropriate “antiquities” and investigate the ways in which they were applied in political, intellectual and artistic contexts in Europe, especially in the Northern Low Countries. This book is a revised and augmented translation of Oudheid als ambitie: De zoektocht naar een passend verleden, 1400–1700 (Nijmegen: Vantilt, 2017).

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym

Introduction / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym

Thinking about the Antiquities of Europe / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym

Antiquity, a Source of Power and Prestige: the Competition for Antiquities in Early Modern Europe / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym

Supposed Ancestors / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym

The Origin Legends of the European Nations / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym

What Is Antiquity? The Early Modern Chronology of History / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym

A Malleable Past: On ‘Proof’, Interpretations, Errors and Falsifications / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym

Humanists and Antiquities in the Northern Low Countries / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym

The Batavians as Ancestors in Early Dutch Humanism: Erasmus, Aurelius and Geldenhouwer / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym

Attempts to Find the Origins of Architecture in the Northern Low Countries: On Romans, Batavians and Giants / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym

The Chivalric Past of the Dutch Republic / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym

From Chivalric Family Tree to ‘National’ Gallery: the Portrait Series of the Counts of Holland, c. 1490–1650 / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym

Living as Befits a Knight: New Castles in Seventeenth-Century Holland / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym

The Mediaeval Prestige of Dutch Cities / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym

Conclusion / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym

Notes / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym

Back Matter

Figures / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym

Bibliography / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym

Index / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym.

Notes:

"This volume is a revised and augmented translation of Oudheid als ambitie: De zoektocht naar een passend verleden, 1400-1700, published by Vantilt, Nijmegen (ISBN 9789460043253)"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-429) and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-41065-1

OCLC:

1107067003

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004410657 DOI