ISBN10: 2503508049, ISBN13: 9782503508047, [publisher: BREPOLS. 01.12.1998.] Softcover XX, 243 Seiten / p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - The fourteen essays presented in this volume together take an historicized approach to constructions of the past, and most address the relatively new field of Medievalism. All of them focus on how and why the present of any period uses the past to promote its own opinions, beliefs, doctrines, or views. In particular, the volume demonstrates that reinventions of past eras or figures can be motivated by a nationalistic desire to create cultural ‘roots’, to discover origins that justify a regime or group’s self-identity, to appropriate a cultural icon or neglected author for a particular political agenda, or to reflect on contemporary social issues via a remote time and place. Reworkings or adaptations of earlier culture often tell us more about the age in which they were produced than the one revived or revisited. The volume features five essays that treat medieval subjects; four focus on Tudor and Stuart figures, religion, or politics; and five concentrate on nineteenth-century uses of medieval or early modern events, literary conventions, ...
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Brepols Publishers, Date: 1998. Hardcover. New. 01 edition. 243 pages. 9.75x6.50x0.50 inches. 1998. Brepols Publishers ISBN 2503508049 9782503508047 [GB]

Brepols Publishers 1998 Hardcover New 01 edition. 243 pages. 9.75x6.50x0.50 inches.