The Uses of the Middle Ages in Modern European States [electronic resource] : History, Nationhood and the Search for Origins /
Evans, R.editor.
Marchal, G.editor.
An assessment of the role of the Middle Ages in national historiography and in modern conceptions of national identity, looking at relatively young nations, and regions which claim national traditions but were slow to achieve, or regain, separate statehood. Examples range from Ireland and Iceland through Austria and Italy to Finland and Greece.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Celts and Scandinavia / Guy Marchal -- Transmission and translation of medieval Irish sources in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Bernadette Cunningham -- The "decline of Norway" : grief and fascination in Norwegian historiography on the Middle Ages / Jan Eivind Myhre -- "Braves step out of the night of the barrows" : regenerating the heritage of early medieval Finland / Derek Fewster -- Interpreting the Nordic past : Icelandic medieval manuscripts and the construction of a modern nation / Guðmundur Hálfdanarson -- A serious case of amnesia : the Dutch and their Middle Ages / Peter Raedts -- Medieval myths and the building of national identity : the example of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg / Michel Margue and Pit Péporté -- An era of grandeur : the Middle Ages in Belgian national historiography, 1830-1914 -- To whom does Byzantium belong? : Greeks, Turks and the present of the medieval / Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis -- The image of the Kosovo battle (1389) today : a historic event, a moral pattern, or the tool of political manipulation / Marko Šuica -- Italy's various Middle Ages / Mauro Moretti and Ilaria Porciani -- Medievalism and Swiss national identity / Guy Marchal -- The public instrumentalization of the Middle Ages in Austria since 1945 / Herwig Wolfram -- "Old Czechs were hefty heroes" : the construction and reconstruction of Czech national history in its relationship to the "great" medieval past / František  Šmahel.
An assessment of the role of the Middle Ages in national historiography and in modern conceptions of national identity, looking at relatively young nations, and regions which claim national traditions but were slow to achieve, or regain, separate statehood. Examples range from Ireland and Iceland through Austria and Italy to Finland and Greece.
Europe—History.
Civilization—History.
History, Modern.
Social history.
World politics.
Historiography.
European History.
Cultural History.
Modern History.
Social History.
Political History.
Historiography and Method.