Manufacturing Middle Ages
entangled history of medievalism in nineteenth-century Europe
by Patrick J. Geary and Gábor Klaniczay
"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"--
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Intellectual life, Medievalism, History, Medieval Civilization, Influence, Civilization, medieval, Europe, civilization, historyPlaces
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Manufacturing Middle Ages: entangled history of medievalism in nineteenth-century Europe
2013, Brill
in English
9004244867 9789004244863
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