The quest for an appropriate past in literature, art and architecture

• Acknowledgements
• p. ix

• Illustrations
• p. x

• Notes on the Editors
• p. xxv

• Notes on the Contributors
• p. xxvii

• The Quest for an Appropriate Past: The Creation of National Identities in Early Modern Literature, Scholarship, Architecture, and Art
• p. 1

• Part 1
• The Mediterranean

• 1
• Claiming and Contesting Trojan Ancestry on Both Sides of the Bosporus - Epic Answers to an Ethnographic Dispute in Quattrocento Humanist Poetry
• p. 15

• 2
• Architecture, Poetry and Law: The Amphitheatre of Capua and the New Works Sponsored by the Local Elite
• p. 47

• 3
• A City in Quest of an Appropriate Antiquity: The Arena of Verona and Its Influence on Architectural Theory in the Early Modern Era
• p. 76

• 4
• Tradition and Originality in Raphael: The Stanza delta Segnatura, the Middle Ages and Local Traditions
• p. 106

• 5
• An Appropriate Past for Renaissance Portugal: André de Resende and the City of Évora
• p. 127

• Part 2
• France

• 6
• The Construction of a National Past in the Bella Britannica by Humbert of Montmoret (d. ca. 1525)
• p. 153

• 7
• Parody and Appropriation of the Past in the Grandes Chroniques Gargantuines and in Rabelais's Pantagruel (1532)
• p. 167

• 8
• Antiquity and Modernity: Sixteenth to Eighteenth-Century French Architecture
• p. 187

• 9
• The Roots of Philibert De I'Orme: Antiquity, Medieval Art, and Early Christian Architecture
• p. 210

• Part 3
• The Low Countries

• 10
• From Chivalric Family Tree to "National" Gallery: The Portrait Series of the Counts of Holland, ca. 1490-1650
• p. 233

• 11
• Dousa's Medieval Tournaments: Chivalry Enters the Age of Humanism?
• p. 302

• 12
• Living as Befits a Knight: New Castles in Seventeenth-Century Holland
• p. 330

• 13
• 'Non erubescat Hollandia': Classical Embarrassment of Riches and the Construction of Local History in Hadrianus Junius' Batavia
• p. 361

• 14
• Epigraphy and Blurring Senses of the Past in Early Modern Travelling Men of Letters: The Case of Arnoldus Buchelius
• p. 383

• 15
• 'Sine amore, sine odio partium': Nicolaus Burgundius' Historia Belgica (1629) and his Tacitean Quest for an Appropriate Past
• p. 397

• 16
• The Mediaeval Prestige of Dutch Cities
• p. 418

• 17
• An Appropriated History: The Case of the Amsterdam Town Hall (1648-1667)
• p. 455

• Part 4
• The Holy Roman Empire

• 18
• Germany's Glory, Past and Present: Konrad Peutinger's Sermones convivales de mirandis Germanie antiquitatibus and Antiquarian Philology
• p. 485

• 19
• Translating the Past: Local Romanesque Architecture in Germany and Its Fifteenth-Century Reinterpretation
• p. 511

• 20
• The Babylonian Origins of Trier
• p. 586

• Part 5
• Poland and Sweden

• 21
• History and Architecture in Pursuit of a Gothic Heritage
• p. 619

• 22
• Early Modern Conceptualizations of Medieval History and Their Impact on Residential Architecture in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
• p. 649

• Part 6
• Britain, Scotland, and Ireland

• 23
• Writing about Romano-British Architecture in the Late Seventeenth Century
• p. 685

• 24
• Preserving the Nation's Zeal: Church Buildings and English Christian History in Stuart England
• p. 707

• 25
• 'A Great Insight into Antiquity': Jacob Bryant and Jeremiah Milles and the Authenticity of the Poems of Thomas Rowley
• p. 731

• 26
• Phoenician Ireland: Charles Vallancey (1725-1812) and the Oriental Roots of Celtic Culture
• p. 750

• Index Nominum
• p. 771