In search of pre-classical antiquity : : rediscovering ancient peoples in mediterranean Europe (19th and 20th c.) / / edited by Antonino De Francesco.

• Superior document: National Cultivation of Culture, Volume 13
• TeilnehmendeR: De Francesco, Antonino ,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: National cultivation of culture ; Volume 13.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 pages) :; illustrations.

The book aims rethinking the cultural history of Mediterranean nationalisms between 19th and 20th centuries by tracing their specific approach to antiquity in the forging of a national past. By focusing on how national imaginaries dealt with this topic and how history and archaeology relied on antiquity, this collection of essays introduces a comparative approach presenting several cases studies concerning many regions including Spain, Italy and Slovenia as well as Albania, Greece and Turkey. By adopting the perspective of a dialogue among all these Mediterranean political cultures, this book breaks significantly new ground, because it shifts attention on how Southern Europe nationalisms are an interconnected political and cultural experience, directly related to the intellectual examples of Northern Europe, but also developing its own particular trends. Contributors are: Çiğdem Atakuman, Filippo Carlà, Francisco Garcia Alonso, Maja Gori, Eleni Stefanou, Rok Stergar, Katia Visconti.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Antonino De Francesco -- Introduction / Antonino De Francesco -- Italian Celticisms: A Second (Unpublished) Version of Giovanni Fabbroni’s Antichi Abitatori d’Italia (1803) / Katia Visconti -- Local Pride, Ethnicity and Ancient History in Turin in the Risorgimento: The Representation of the Taurisci/Taurini in Carlo Promis’ Storia dell’Antica Torino (1869) / Filippo Carlà-Uhink -- The Invention of Numantia and Emporion: Archaeology and the Regeneration of Spanish and Catalan Nationalisms after the Crisis of 1898 / Francisco Gracia-Alonso -- Illyrian Autochthonism and the Beginnings of South Slav Nationalisms in the West Balkans / Rok Stergar -- Illyrians Across the Adriatic: A Cultural History of an Archaeological Culture / Maja Gori -- Classical Antiquity and Modern Greek National Identity: Reliving the Ancient Maritime Heritage at the Sea of Salamis / Eleni Stefanou -- Shifting Discourses of Heritage and Identity in Turkey: Anatolianist Ideologies and Beyond / Çiğdem Atakuman -- Bibliography / Antonino De Francesco -- Index / Antonino De Francesco.