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

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 -- J...

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Other Authors: Bak, János M. (Editor, Hrsg.)
Klaniczay, Gábor (Editor, Hrsg.)
Geary, Patrick J. (Editor, Hrsg.)
Document Type: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden [u.a.] : Brill , 2015
Series:National cultivation of culture 7
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Author Notes:ed. by János M. Ba, Patrick J. Geary & Gábor Klaniczay
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Summary: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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:XXXII, 325 S. Ill.
ISBN:9789004276802