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history, nationhood and the search for origins

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Palgrave Macmillan
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Table of Contents

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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
940.1072
Library of Congress
D116 .U74 2010, D900-D2027CB3-CB481D, D116 .U74 2011

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p. cm.

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OL25001550M
Internet Archive
usesmiddleagesmo00evan
ISBN 13
9780230576025
LCCN
2010042579
OCLC/WorldCat
671237337

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