The uses of the Middle Ages in modern European states
Subtitle: history, nationhood and the search for origins
By: edited by R.J.W. Evans, Guy P. Marchal
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230576025
Subjects: Historiography; European National characteristics; Medieval Civilization; Middle Ages; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Celts and Scandinavia / Guy Marchal; title: Transmission and translation of medieval Irish sources in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Bernadette Cunningham; title: The "decline of Norway" : grief and fascination in Norwegian historiography on the Middle Ages / Jan Eivind Myhre; title: "Braves step out of the night of the barrows" : regenerating the heritage of early medieval Finland / Derek Fewster; title: Interpreting the Nordic past : Icelandic medieval manuscripts and the construction of a modern nation / Guðmundur Hálfdanarson; title: A serious case of amnesia : the Dutch and their Middle Ages / Peter Raedts; title: Medieval myths and the building of national identity : the example of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg / Michel Margue and Pit Péporté; title: An era of grandeur : the Middle Ages in Belgian national historiography, 1830-1914; title: To whom does Byzantium belong? : Greeks, Turks and the present of the medieval / Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis; title: The image of the Kosovo battle (1389) today : a historic event, a moral pattern, or the tool of political manipulation / Marko Šuica; title: Italy's various Middle Ages / Mauro Moretti and Ilaria Porciani; title: Medievalism and Swiss national identity / Guy Marchal; title: The public instrumentalization of the Middle Ages in Austria since 1945 / Herwig Wolfram; title: "Old Czechs were hefty heroes" : the construction and reconstruction of Czech national history in its relationship to the "great" medieval past / František  Šmahel.