Manufacturing a Past for the Present
Forgery and Authenticity in Medievalist Texts and Objects in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Published on 7. November 2014
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Hardback
358 pages
978-90-04-27680-2 (ISBN)
Description
In search of specific national traditions nineteenth-century artists and scholars did not shy of manipulating texts and objects or even outright manufacturing them. The essays edited by Janos M. Bak, Patrick J. Geary and Gabor Klaniczay explore the various artifacts from outright forgeries to fruits of poetic phantasy, while also discussing the volatile notion of authenticity and the multiple claims for it in the age.
Contributors include: Pavlina Rychterova, Peter Davidhazi, Pertti Anttonen, Laszlo Szoerenyi, Janos M. Bak, Nora Berend, Benedek Lang, Igor P. Medvedev, Dan D.Y. Shapira, Janos Gyoergy Szilagyi, Cristina La Rocca, Giedre Mickunaite, Johan Hegardt and Sandor Radnoti.
Contributors include: Pavlina Rychterova, Peter Davidhazi, Pertti Anttonen, Laszlo Szoerenyi, Janos M. Bak, Nora Berend, Benedek Lang, Igor P. Medvedev, Dan D.Y. Shapira, Janos Gyoergy Szilagyi, Cristina La Rocca, Giedre Mickunaite, Johan Hegardt and Sandor Radnoti.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
These essays are intended both for modern historians, medievalists, and scholars of nationalism as well as for a wider public interested in understanding the origins of modern nationalist ideology.
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sewn/stitched
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60 s/w Abbildungen, 5 farbige Abbildungen
5 Illustrations, color; 60 Illustrations, black and white
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Height: 243 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
680 gr
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978-90-04-27680-2 (9789004276802)
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Janos M. Bak is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver and Central European University, Budapest. He published extensively on medieval rulership, laws, symbology of power; his most recent volume is Studying Rulers and their Subjects (Variorum, 2010).
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Patrick J. Geary is Professor of Medieval European History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has published numerous books and essays on medieval social and cultural history including The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe (Princeton, 2002).
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Gabor Klaniczay is Professor of Medieval Studies at the Central European University, Budapest. He has published numerous books and essays on the historical anthropology of Christianity, including Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses: Dynastic Cults in Medieval Central Europe (Cambridge, 2002).
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Patrick J. Geary is Professor of Medieval European History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has published numerous books and essays on medieval social and cultural history including The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe (Princeton, 2002).
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Gabor Klaniczay is Professor of Medieval Studies at the Central European University, Budapest. He has published numerous books and essays on the historical anthropology of Christianity, including Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses: Dynastic Cults in Medieval Central Europe (Cambridge, 2002).
Content
Acknowledgements ... vii
The Long Shadow of Ossian. Editors' Preface ... viii
List of Figures ... xxv
Notes on Contributors ... xxviii
PART ONE
SEARCHING FOR THE VOICE OF THE NATION
1 The Manuscripts of Gruenberg and Koeniginhof: Romantic Lies about the Glorious Past of the Czech Nation ... 3
Pavlina Rychterova
2 To Authenticate a Manuscript: The Case of Toldy and Hanka, Hermeneutically Reconsidered ... 31
Peter Davidhazi
3 The Kalevala and the Authenticity Debate ... 56
Pertti Anttonen
4 Janos Arany's Csaba Trilogy and Arnold Ipolyi's Hungarian Mythology ... 81
Laszlo Szoerenyi
5 From the Anonymous Gesta to the Flight of Zalan by Voeroesmarty ... 96
Janos M. Bak
PART TWO
INVENTING A PAST
6 Forging the Cuman Law, Forging an Identity ... 109
Nora Berend
7 Invented Middle Ages in Nineteenth-century Hungary. The Forgeries of Samuel Literati Nemes ... 129
Benedek Lang
8 Excellent Scholar-Excellent Forger: The Case of Karl Benedict Hase ... 144
Igor P. Medvedev
9 On Firkowicz, Forgeries and Forging Jewish Identities ... 156
Dan D. Y. Shapira
PART THREE
"ANCIENT" OBJECTS: FAKES AND PHANTASIES
10 Wisest is Time: Ancient Vase Forgeries ... 173
Janos Gyoergy Szilagyi
11 Agilulf, "The Nonexistent Knight" and the Forging of the Italian "Germanic" Past ... 224
Cristina La Rocca
12 Imagining the Real: Material Evidence and Participatory Past in Nineteenth-Century Lithuania ... 267
Giedre Mickunaite
13 Time Stopped. The Open-air Museum Skansen of Artur Hazelius ... 287
Johan Hegardt
14 The New York Cloisters: A Forgery? ... 307
Sandor Radnoti
Index of Proper Names ... 317
The Long Shadow of Ossian. Editors' Preface ... viii
List of Figures ... xxv
Notes on Contributors ... xxviii
PART ONE
SEARCHING FOR THE VOICE OF THE NATION
1 The Manuscripts of Gruenberg and Koeniginhof: Romantic Lies about the Glorious Past of the Czech Nation ... 3
Pavlina Rychterova
2 To Authenticate a Manuscript: The Case of Toldy and Hanka, Hermeneutically Reconsidered ... 31
Peter Davidhazi
3 The Kalevala and the Authenticity Debate ... 56
Pertti Anttonen
4 Janos Arany's Csaba Trilogy and Arnold Ipolyi's Hungarian Mythology ... 81
Laszlo Szoerenyi
5 From the Anonymous Gesta to the Flight of Zalan by Voeroesmarty ... 96
Janos M. Bak
PART TWO
INVENTING A PAST
6 Forging the Cuman Law, Forging an Identity ... 109
Nora Berend
7 Invented Middle Ages in Nineteenth-century Hungary. The Forgeries of Samuel Literati Nemes ... 129
Benedek Lang
8 Excellent Scholar-Excellent Forger: The Case of Karl Benedict Hase ... 144
Igor P. Medvedev
9 On Firkowicz, Forgeries and Forging Jewish Identities ... 156
Dan D. Y. Shapira
PART THREE
"ANCIENT" OBJECTS: FAKES AND PHANTASIES
10 Wisest is Time: Ancient Vase Forgeries ... 173
Janos Gyoergy Szilagyi
11 Agilulf, "The Nonexistent Knight" and the Forging of the Italian "Germanic" Past ... 224
Cristina La Rocca
12 Imagining the Real: Material Evidence and Participatory Past in Nineteenth-Century Lithuania ... 267
Giedre Mickunaite
13 Time Stopped. The Open-air Museum Skansen of Artur Hazelius ... 287
Johan Hegardt
14 The New York Cloisters: A Forgery? ... 307
Sandor Radnoti
Index of Proper Names ... 317