General Information

Language

English.

Published

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2011.

Physical Description

viii, 296 p. ; 24 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

Evans, Robert John Weston.

Marchal, Guy P.

Subjects

Subject

Middle Ages > Historiography.

Civilization, Medieval > Historiography.

National characteristics, European.

Europe > History > 476-1492 > Historiography.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

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

Series

Writing the Nation series ; v. 8

Content

Celts and Scandinavia / Guy Marchal -- 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 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.

ISBN

9780230576025

0230576028

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	940.1072 EVA		OSA Repository	Donation of Alexei Miller.

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