Manufacturing Middle Ages
Subtitle: entangled history of medievalism in nineteenth-century Europe
By: edited by Patrick J. Geary and Gabor Klaniczay
Series: National cultivation of culture -- volume 6
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9789004244863; 9789004244870
Subjects: Intellectual life; Medievalism; History; Medieval Civilization; Influence
Description: "Across the nineteenth century European history, philology, archaeology, art, and architecture turned from a common classical vocabulary and ideology to images of pasts and origins drawn primarily from the Middle Ages. The result was a paradox, as scholars and artists, schooled in the same pan-European vocabularies and methodologies nevertheless sought to discover through them unique and, frequently, oppositional national identities. These essays, edited by Patrick J. Geary and Gábor Klaniczay, discuss this all-European phenomenon with a special focus on Scandinavia and East-Central Europe, bearing witness to the inextricable links between cultural and scientific engagement, the search for national identity, and political agendas in the long nineteenth century that made the search for archaic origins an entangled history"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part One. Medievalism in nineteenth-century historiography; title: National origin narratives in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy / Walter Pohl; title: The uses and abuses of barbarian invasions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Ian N. Wood; title: Oehlenschlaeger and Ibsen: national revival in drama and history in Denmark and Norway c.1800-1860 / Sverre Bagge; title: Romantic historiography as a sociology of liberty: Joachim Lelewel and his contemporaries / Maciej Janowski; title: Part Two. Medievalism in nineteenth-century architecture; title: The roots of medievalism in North-West Europe: national romanticism, architecture, literature / David M. Wilson; title: Medieval and neo-medieval buildings in Scandinavia / Anders Andren; title: Between Slavs and old Bulgars: 'ancestors', 'race' and identity in late nineteenth-century Bulgaria / Stefan Detchev; title: With brotherly love: the Czech beginnings of medieval archaeology in Bulgaria and Ukraine / Florin Curta; title: The study of the archaeological finds of the tenth-century Carpathian Basin as national archaeology: early nineteenth-century views / Peter Lango.