Manufacturing a past for the present : forgery and authenticity in medievalist texts and objects in nineteenth-century Europe /
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| Imprint: | Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2015] |
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| Description: | xxxii, 325 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | National cultivation of culture ; volume 7 National cultivation of culture ; v. 7. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10126821 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- The Long Shadow of Ossian. Editors' Preface
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- 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
- 2. To Authenticate a Manuscript: The Case of Toldy and Hanka, Hermeneutically Reconsidered
- 3. The Kalevala and the Authenticity Debate
- 4. János Arany's Csaba Trilogy and Arnold Ipolyi's Hungarian Mythology
- 5. From the Anonymous Gesta to the Flight of Zalán by Vörösmarty
- Part 2. Inventing a Past
- 6. Forging the Cuman Law, Forging an Identity
- 7. Invented Middle Ages in Nineteenth-century Hungary. The Forgeries of Samuel Literáti Nemes
- 8. Excellent Scholar-Excellent Forger: The Case of Karl Benedict Hase
- 9. On Firkowicz, Forgeries and Forging Jewish Identities
- Part 3. "Ancient" Objects: Fakes and Fantasies
- 10. Wisest is Time: Ancient Vase Forgeries
- 11. Agilulf, "The Nonexistent Knight" and the Forging of the Italian "Germanic" Past
- 12. Imagining the Real: Material Evidence and Participatory Past in Nineteenth-Century Lithuania
- 13. Time Stopped. The Open-air Museum Skansen of Artur Hazelius
- 14. The New York Cloisters: A Forgery?
- Index of Proper Names
