Manufacturing a past for the present

Titel: Manufacturing a past for the present : forgery and authenticity in medievalist texts and objects in nineteenth-century Europe / edited by János M. Bak ...
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Veröffentlicht: Leiden : Brill, 2015
Umfang: XXXII, 325 Seiten : Illustrationen
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
Schriftenreihe/
mehrbändiges Werk:
National cultivation of culture ; 7
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ISBN: 9004276807 ; 9789004276802
  • Acknowledgements
  • p. vii
  • The Long Shadow of Ossian. Editors' Preface
  • p. viii
  • List of Figures
  • p. xxv
  • Notes on Contributors
  • p. xxviii
  • Part 1
  • Searching for the Voice of the Nation
  • 1
  • The Manuscripts of Grünberg and Königinhof: Romantic Lies about the Glorious Past of the Czech Nation
  • p. 3
  • 2
  • To Authenticate a Manuscript: The Case of Toldy and Hanka, Hermeneutically Reconsidered
  • p. 31
  • 3
  • The Kalevala and the Authenticity Debate
  • p. 56
  • 4
  • János Arany's Csaba Trilogy and Arnold Ipolyi's Hungarian Mythology
  • p. 81
  • 5
  • From the Anonymous Gesta to the Flight of Zalán by Vörösmarty
  • p. 96
  • Part 2
  • Inventing a Past
  • 6
  • Forging the Cuman Law, Forging an Identity
  • p. 109
  • 7
  • Invented Middle Ages in Nineteenth-century Hungary. The Forgeries of Samuel Literáti Nemes
  • p. 129
  • 8
  • Excellent Scholar-Excellent Forger: The Case of Karl Benedict Hase
  • p. 144
  • 9
  • On Firkowicz, Forgeries and Forging Jewish Identities
  • p. 156
  • Part 3
  • "Ancient" Objects: Fakes and Fantasies
  • 10
  • Wisest is Time: Ancient Vase Forgeries
  • p. 173
  • 11
  • Agilulf, "The Nonexistent Knight" and the Forging of the Italian "Germanic" Past
  • p. 224
  • 12
  • Imagining the Real: Material Evidence and Participatory Past in Nineteenth-Century Lithuania
  • p. 267
  • 13
  • Time Stopped. The Open-air Museum Skansen of Artur Hazelius
  • p. 287
  • 14
  • The New York Cloisters: A Forgery?
  • p. 307
  • Index of Proper Names
  • p. 317