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

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Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:National cultivation of culture ; volume 7
National cultivation of culture ; v. 7.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11238097
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Other authors / contributors:Bak, János M., editor.
Geary, Patrick J., 1948- editor.
Klaniczay, Gábor, editor.
ISBN:9789004276819
9004276815
9789004276802
9004276807
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Manufacturing a Past for the Present contains a series of essays on forgeries and manipulated texts and objects mainly in the service of modern nations emerging during the long nineteenth century, and reflections on the related debates on authenticity.
Other form:Print version: Manufacturing a past for the present 9789004276802
Standard no.:10.1163/9789004276819
Table of 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.