The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture

by Karl A.E. Enenkel

This volume explores the various strategies by which appropriate pasts were construed in scholarship, literature, art, and architecture in order to create "national", regional, or local identities in late medieval and early modern Europe. Because authority was based on lineage, political and territorial claims were underpinned by historical arguments, either true or otherwise. Literature, scholarship, art, and architecture were pivotal media that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004377689
• ISBN13: 9789004377684
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 820 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.5"