Ambitious antiquities, famous forebears : constructions of a glorious past in the early modern Netherlands and in Europe /
"This monograph studies the constructions of 'impressive' historical descent manufactured to create 'national', regional, or local antiquities in early modern Europe (1500-1700), especially the Netherlands. This was a period characterised by important political changes and t...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Dutch |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2019]
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Colección: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
v. 307. Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 41. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Antiquity, a source of power and prestige : the competition for antiquities in early modern Europe
- Supposed ancestors
- The origin legends of the European nations
- What is antiquity? The early modern chronology of history
- A malleable past : on 'proof', interpretations, errors and falsifications
- The Batavians as ancestors in early Dutch humanism : Erasmus, Aurelius and Geldenhouwer
- Attempts to find the origins of architecture in the northern low countries : on Romans, Batavians and giants
- From chivalric family tree to 'national' gallery : the portrait series of the counts of Holland, c. 1490-1650
- Living as befits a knight : new castles in seventeenth-century Holland
- The mediaeval prestige of Dutch cities.