The Mirror of the Medieval : An Anthropology of the Western Historical Imagination /

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Since its invention by Renaissance humanists, the myth of the "Middle Ages" has held a uniquely important place in the Western historical imagination. Whether envisioned as an era of lost simplicity or a barbaric nightmare, the medieval past has always served as a mirror for modernity. Thi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fazioli, K. Patrick (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2017]
Colección:Making Sense of History ; 29
Temas:
Anthropology > Alps, Eastern, Region.
Collective memory - Alps, Eastern, Region.
Collective memory > Alps, Eastern, Region.
Historiography > Alps, Eastern, Region.
Learning and scholarship > Alps, Eastern, Region.
Middle Ages > Historiography.
Nationalism > Alps, Eastern, Region.
HISTORY / Medieval.
anthropology.
eastern alps.
fall of the western roman empire.
history of europe.
history.
humanism.
identity.
interdisciplinary.
medieval past.
medieval period.
middle ages.
mirror of modernity.
nationalism.
politics.
power.
public memory.
renaissance humanists.
renaissance.
retrospective.
western culture.
western historical imagination.
western society.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables, Figures, and Maps
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I Anthropology, History, and the Middle Ages
  • CHAPTER 1 Manifesto for an Anthropology of Historicity
  • CHAPTER 2 Mirror of the Medieval
  • CHAPTER 3 Anthropology's Lost Medieval Heritage
  • Part II Identity, Power, and the Medieval Past in the Eastern Alpine Region
  • CHAPTER 4 German Imperialism and the Early Medieval Past
  • CHAPTER 5 Slovenian Identity and the Early Medieval Past
  • CHAPTER 6 Beyond Ethnicity: Technological Choice and Communities of Practice
  • CHAPTER 7 Christianization, Syncretism, and an Archaeology of Time
  • Conclusion: Mourning Modernity and the Myth of the Middle Ages
  • References
  • Index

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