Reinventing the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Constructions of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods. Edited by William F. Gentrup. The 14 essays included in this volume focus on how and why the presents of any period uses the past to promote its own opinons, beliefs, doctrines, or views. They demonstrate that reinventions of past eras or figures can be motivated by nationalistic desire to create 'roots', to discover origins that justify a regime or group's self-indentity, to appropriate a cultural icon for a particular political propaganda and so on. The volume deals with Tudor and Stuart figures, religion or politics and with nineteenth-century uses of medieval or early modern events, settings and themes. XX,243 Seiten, gebunden (Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; Vol 1/Brepols 1998) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear

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