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Manufacturing a past for the present : forgery and authenticity in medievalist texts and objects in nineteenth-century Europe

Title: Manufacturing a past for the present : forgery and authenticity in medievalist texts and objects in nineteenth-century Europe / edited by János M. Bak, Patrick J. Geary and Gábor Klaniczay.
Publication: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

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Description

xxxii, 325 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

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 János M. Bak, Patrick J. Geary and Gábor 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. --Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

National cultivation of culture ; volume 7

Uniform Title

National cultivation of culture ; v. 7.

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The manuscripts of Grunberg and Koniginhof : romantic lies about the glorious past of the Czech nation / Pavlina Rychterova -- To authenticate a manuscript : the case of Toldy and Hanka, hermeneutically reconsidered / Peter Davidhazi -- The Kalevala and the authenticity debate / Pertti Anttonen -- Janos Arany's Csaba trilogy and Arnold Ipolyi's Hungarian mythology / Laszlo Szorenyi -- From the anonymous Gesta to The flight of Zalan by Vorosmarty / Janos M. Bak -- Forging the Cuman law, forging an identity / Nora Berend -- Invented Middle Ages in nineteenth-century Hungary : the forgeries of Samuel Literati Nemes / Benedek Lang -- Excellent scholar, excellent forger : the case of Karl Benedict Hase / Igor P. Medvedev -- On Firkowicz, forgeries and forging Jewish identities / Dan D.Y. Shapira -- Wisest is time : ancient vase forgeries / Janos Gyorgy Szilagyi -- Agilulf, "the Nonexistent Knight" and the forging of the Italian "Germanic" past / Cristina La Rocca -- Imagining the real : material evidence and participatory past in nineteenth-century Lithuania / Giedre Mickunaite -- Time stopped : the open-air museum Skansen of Arthur Hazelius / Johan Hegardt -- The New York Cloisters : a forgery? / Sandor Radnoti.

Call Number

JFE 15-5798

ISBN

9789004276802 (hardback : alk. paper)
9004276807 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004276819 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014030588

OCLC

891941722

Title

Manufacturing a past for the present : forgery and authenticity in medievalist texts and objects in nineteenth-century Europe / edited by János M. Bak, Patrick J. Geary and Gábor Klaniczay.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

National cultivation of culture ; volume 7

National cultivation of culture ; v. 7.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Bak, János M., editor.

Geary, Patrick J., 1948- editor.

Klaniczay, Gábor, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-5798

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