Manufacturing a past for the present : : forgery and authenticity in medievalist texts and objects in nineteenth-century Europe / / edited by János M. Bak, Patrick J. Geary and Gábor Klaniczay ; contributors, Pertti Anttonen [and fifteen others].

• Superior document: National Cultivation of Culture, Volume 7
• TeilnehmendeR: Bak, János M.,; Geary, Patrick J., 1948-; Klaniczay, Gábor,; Anttonen, Pertti,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: National cultivation of culture ; Volume 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (357 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

In search of specific national traditions nineteenth-century artists and scholars did not shy of manipulating texts and objects or even outright manufacturing them. The essays edited by János M. Bak, Patrick J. Geary and Gábor Klaniczay explore the various artifacts from outright forgeries to fruits of poetic phantasy, while also discussing the volatile notion of authenticity and the multiple claims for it in the age. Contributors include: Pavlína Rychterová, Péter Dávidházi, Pertti Anttonen, László Szörényi, János M. Bak, Nóra Berend, Benedek Láng, Igor P. Medvedev, Dan D.Y. Shapira, János György Szilágyi, Cristina La Rocca, Giedrė Mickūnaitė, Johan Hegardt and Sándor Radnóti.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1 The Manuscripts of Grünberg and Königinhof: Romantic Lies about the Glorious Past of the Czech Nation / Pavlína Rychterová -- 2 To Authenticate a Manuscript: The Case of Toldy and Hanka, Hermeneutically Reconsidered / Péter Dávidházi -- 3 The Kalevala and the Authenticity Debate / Pertti Anttonen -- 4 János Arany’s Csaba Trilogy and Arnold Ipolyi’s Hungarian Mythology / László Szörényi -- 5 From the Anonymous Gesta to the Flight of Zalán by Vörösmarty / János M. Bak -- 6 Forging the Cuman Law, Forging an Identity / Nora Berend -- 7 Invented Middle Ages in Nineteenth-century Hungary. The Forgeries of Sámuel Literáti Nemes / Benedek Láng -- 8 Excellent Scholar—Excellent Forger: The Case of Karl Benedict Hase / Igor P. Medvedev -- 9 On Firkowicz, Forgeries and Forging Jewish Identities / Dan D. Y. Shapira -- 10 Wisest is Time: Ancient Vase Forgeries / János György Szilágyi -- 11 Agilulf, “The Nonexistent Knight” and the Forging of the Italian “Germanic” Past / Cristina La Rocca -- 12 Imagining the Real: Material Evidence and Participatory Past in Nineteenth-Century Lithuania / Giedrė Mickūnaitė -- 13 Time Stopped. The Open-air Museum Skansen of Artur Hazelius / Johan Hegardt -- 14 The New York Cloisters: A Forgery? / Sándor Radnóti -- Index of Proper Names.