The quest for an appropriate past in literature, art and architecture / Edited by Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym.

• TeilnehmendeR: Enenkel, K. A. E.,; Ottenheym, Koen,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Intersections 60.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright page --; Acknowledgements --; Illustrations --; Notes on the Editors --; Notes on the Contributors --; The Quest for an Appropriate Past: The Creation of National Identities in Early Modern Literature, Scholarship, Architecture, and Art /; The Mediterranean --; Claiming and Contesting Trojan Ancestry on Both Sides of the Bosporus – Epic Answers to an Ethnographic Dispute in Quattrocento Humanist Poetry /; Architecture, Poetry and Law: The Amphitheatre of Capua and the New Works Sponsored by the Local Élite /; A City in Quest of an Appropriate Antiquity: The Arena of Verona and Its Influence on Architectural Theory in the Early Modern Era /; Tradition and Originality in Raphael: The Stanza della Segnatura, the Middle Ages and Local Traditions /; An Appropriate Past for Renaissance Portugal: André de Resende and the City of Évora /; France --; The Construction of a National Past in the Bella Britannica by Humbert of Montmoret (d. circa 1525) /; Parody and Appropriation of the Past in the Grandes Chroniques Gargantuines and in Rabelais’s Pantagruel (1532) /; Antiquity and Modernity: Sixteenth- to Eighteenth-Century French Architecture /; The Roots of Philibert De l’Orme: Antiquity, Medieval Art, and Early Christian Architecture /; The Low Countries --; From Chivalric Family Tree to “National” Gallery: The Portrait Series of the Counts of Holland, circa 1490–1650 /; Dousa’s Medieval Tournaments: Chivalry Enters the Age of Humanism? /; Living as Befits a Knight: New Castles in Seventeenth-Century Holland /; ‘Non erubescat Hollandia’: Classical Embarrassment of Riches and the Construction of Local History in Hadrianus Junius’ Batavia /; Epigraphy and Blurring Senses of the Past in Early Modern Travelling Men of Letters: The Case of Arnoldus Buchelius /; ‘Sine amore, sine odio partium’: Nicolaus Burgundius’ Historia Belgica (1629) and his Tacitean Quest for an Appropriate Past /; The Mediaeval Prestige of Dutch Cities /; An Appropriated History: The Case of the Amsterdam Town Hall (1648–1667) /; The Holy Roman Empire --; Germany’s Glory, Past and Present: Konrad Peutinger’s Sermones convivales de mirandis Germanie antiquitatibus and Antiquarian Philology /; Translating the Past: Local Romanesque Architecture in Germany and Its Fifteenth-Century Reinterpretation /; The Babylonian Origins of Trier /; Poland and Sweden --; History and Architecture in Pursuit of a Gothic Heritage /; Early Modern Conceptualizations of Medieval History and Their Impact on Residential Architecture in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth /; Britain, Scotland, and Ireland --; Writing about Romano-British Architecture in the Late Seventeenth Century /; Preserving the Nation’s Zeal: Church Buildings and English Christian History in Stuart England /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004378219
• ISSN: 1568-1181
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Edited by Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym.

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 were used to give evidence of the impressive old lineage of states, regions, or families. These claims were related not only to classical antiquity but also to other periods that were regarded as antiquities, such as the Middle Ages, especially the chivalric age. The authors of this volume analyse these intriguing early modern constructions of “antiquity” and investigate the ways in which they were applied in political, intellectual and artistic contexts in the period of 1400–1700. Contributors include: Barbara Arciszewska, Bianca De Divitiis, Karl Enenkel, Hubertus Günther, Thomas Haye, Harald Hendrix, Stephan Hoppe, Marc Laureys, Frédérique Lemerle, Coen Maas, Anne-Françoise Morel, Kristoffer Neville, Konrad Ottenheym, Yves Pauwels, Christian Peters, Christoph Pieper, David Rijser, Bernd Roling, Nuno Senos, Paul Smith, Pieter Vlaardingerbroek, and Matthew Walker.