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The Uses of the Middle Ages in Modern European States
-History, Nationhood and the Search for Origins-R. Evans; G. Marchal (Hrsg.)
Übersicht
Verlag | : | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
Buchreihe | : | Writing the Nation |
Sprache | : | Englisch |
Erschienen | : | 21. 12. 2010 |
Seiten | : | 296 |
Einband | : | Gebunden |
Höhe | : | 229 mm |
Breite | : | 152 mm |
Gewicht | : | 592 g |
ISBN | : | 9780230576025 |
Sprache | : | Englisch |
Autorinformation
BERNADETTE CUNNINGHAM Deputy Librarian, the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
DEREK FEWSTER Researcher in the Department of History, the University of Helsinki, Finland
GU?MUNDUR HÁLFDANARSON Professor of History, the University of Iceland
MICHEL MARGUE Professor of History at the University of Luxembourg
MAURO MORETTI Professor in the Department of Human Sciences, Siena Foreign University, Italy
JAN EIVIND MYHRE Professor of Modern History, the University of Oslo, Norway
JOHANNES NIEHOFF-PANAGIOTIDIS Professor of Byzantine Studies, the Free University Berlin, Germany
PIT PÉPORTÉ Researcher in the Department of History, the University of Luxembourg
ILARIA PORCIANI Professor of Contemporary History, the University of Bologna, Italy
PETER RAEDTS Professor of Medieval History, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
FRANTI EK MAHEL Vice-director, the Centre for Medieval Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences, the Czech Republic
MARKO UICA Lecturer in the Department of History, the University of Belgrade, Serbia
JO TOLLEBEEK Professor of Cultural History, the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
HERWIG WOLFRAM Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Vienna, Austria
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Contributors Introduction; G.Marchal PART I: CELTS AND SCANDINAVIA Transmission and Translation of Medieval Irish Sources in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; B.Cunningham The 'Decline of Norway': Grief and Fascination in Norwegian Historiography on the Middle Ages; J.E.Myhre 'Braves Step out of the Night of the Barrows': Regenerating the Heritage of Early Medieval Finland; D.Fewster Interpreting the Nordic Past: Icelandic Medieval Manuscripts and the Construction of a Modern Nation; G.Hálfdanarson PART II: BENELUX A Serious Case of Amnesia: The Dutch and their Middle Ages; P.Raedts Medieval Myths and the Building of National Identity: the Example of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg; M.Margue & P.Péporté An Era of Grandeur: The Middle Ages in Belgian National Historiography, 1830-1914; J.Tollebeek PART III: BALKANS To Whom Does Byzantium Belong? Greeks, Turks and the Present of the Medieval Balkans; J.Niehoff-Panagiotidis The Image of the Kosovo Battle (1389) Today: A Historic Event, a Moral Pattern, or the Tool of Political Manipulation; M.Šuica PART IV: CENTRAL EUROPE Italy's Various Middle Ages; M.Moretti & I.Porciani Medievalism and Swiss National Identity; G.Marchal The Public Instrumentalization of the Middle Ages in Austria since 1945; H.Wolfram 'Old Czechs were Hefty Heroes': The Construction and Reconstruction of Czech National History in its Relationship to the 'Great' Medieval Past; F.Šmahel Conclusion; R.J.W.Evans Bibliography Index