Bibliograph

The uses of the Middle Ages in modern European states, history, nationhood and the search for origins, edited by R.J.W. Evans and Guy P. Marchal

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The uses of the Middle Ages in modern European states, history, nationhood and the search for origins, edited by R.J.W. Evans and Guy P. Marchal

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The uses of the Middle Ages in modern European states

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

671237337

Responsibility statement

edited by R.J.W. Evans and Guy P. Marchal

Series statement

Writing the Nation series, v. 8

Sub title

history, nationhood and the search for origins

Table Of Contents

Transmission and translation of medieval Irish sources in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Bernadette Cunningham -- The "decline of Norway" : grief and fascination in Norwegian historiography on the Middle Ages / Jan Eivind Myhre -- "Braves step out of the night of the barrows" : regenerating the heritage of early medieval Finland / Derek Fewster -- Interpreting the Nordic past : Icelandic medieval manuscripts and the construction of a modern nation / Guðmundur Hálfdanarson -- A serious case of amnesia : the Dutch and their Middle Ages / Peter Raedts -- Medieval myths and the building of national identity : the example of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg / Michel Margue and Pit Péporté -- An era of grandeur : the Middle Ages in Belgian national historiography, 1830-1914 -- To whom does Byzantium belong? : Greeks, Turks and the present of the medieval / Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis -- The image of the Kosovo battle (1389) today : a historic event, a moral pattern, or the tool of political manipulation / Marko Šuica -- Italy's various Middle Ages / Mauro Moretti and Ilaria Porciani -- Medievalism, the politics of memory and Swiss national identity / Guy Marchal -- The public instrumentalization of the Middle Ages in Austria since 1945 / Herwig Wolfram -- "Old Czechs were hefty heroes" : the construction and reconstruction of Czech national history in its relationship to the "great" medieval past / František Šmahel

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