Ambitious antiquities, famous forebears : : constructions of a glorious past in the early modern Netherlands and in Europe /

Ambitious antiquities, famous forebears : : constructions of a glorious past in the early modern Netherlands and in Europe / / Karl A.E. Enenkel, Konrad A. Ottenheym ; translated by Alexander C. Thomson.

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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 therefore by an increased n...

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Superior document:Brill's Studies in Intellectual History; volume307/41
VerfasserIn:
Enenkel, K. A. E.,
Ottenheym, Koen,
TeilnehmendeR:
Ottenheym, Koen,
Thomson, Alexander C.,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Dutch
Series:Brill's Studies in Intellectual History; volume307/41.
Physical Description:1 online resource (443 pages).
Notes:"This volume is a revised and augmented translation of Oudheid als ambitie: De zoektocht naar een passend verleden, 1400-1700, published by Vantilt, Nijmegen (ISBN 9789460043253)"--Title page verso.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym
  • Introduction / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym
  • Thinking about the Antiquities of Europe / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym
  • Antiquity, a Source of Power and Prestige: the Competition for Antiquities in Early Modern Europe / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym
  • Supposed Ancestors / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym
  • The Origin Legends of the European Nations / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym
  • What Is Antiquity? The Early Modern Chronology of History / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym
  • A Malleable Past: On ‘Proof’, Interpretations, Errors and Falsifications / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym
  • Humanists and Antiquities in the Northern Low Countries / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym
  • The Batavians as Ancestors in Early Dutch Humanism: Erasmus, Aurelius and Geldenhouwer / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym
  • Attempts to Find the Origins of Architecture in the Northern Low Countries: On Romans, Batavians and Giants / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym
  • The Chivalric Past of the Dutch Republic / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym
  • From Chivalric Family Tree to ‘National’ Gallery: the Portrait Series of the Counts of Holland, c. 1490–1650 / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym
  • Living as Befits a Knight: New Castles in Seventeenth-Century Holland / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym
  • The Mediaeval Prestige of Dutch Cities / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym
  • Conclusion / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym
  • Notes / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym
  • Back Matter
  • Figures / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym
  • Bibliography / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym
  • Index / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym.

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