Overview
Recognising the importance of the Middle Ages as a vital point of reference in the construction of national identities, this challenging book examines the remarkable role played by the period in the grand duchy of Luxembourg. This country is representative of the close relationship between historicism and nation-building in modern Europe. Tracing the fortunes of four pivotal figures from their own lifetimes to the present, this book uncovers how they each entered collective memory and came to play a key role in a national narrative of history. The analysis includes the foundation myth of Sigefroid and Melusine, the posthumous career of Countess Ermesinde and King John of Bohemia’s transformation into a national hero. Borrowing some of its theoretical framework from the study of lieux de mémoire, this wide-ranging book crosses disciplinary boundaries and addresses not only historical writing, but also literature, the visual arts, and popular culture.
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Author: Pit Péporté
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 3
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.751kg
ISBN: 9789004210677
ISBN 10: 9004210679
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 25 August 2011
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This book is a mine of information for anyone interested in the history of medievalism. By highlighting the intercultural crossings between Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany, and France, Peporte follows indirectly the histoire croisee approach. His findings will be of great value to scholars of Europe's entagled history. Stefan Goebel, in:Speculum, Volume 88, Issue 2, April 2013, pp 565-566 Le projet qu'il a mene a son terme impressionne non seulement par son ambition mais aussi par son audace. Partant du constat que l'ecriture du passe a fatalement quelque chose de factice, l'historien s'est emancipe des subdivisions traditionnelles de sa discipline pour parcourir, avec un sens critique aiguise, pres d'un millenaire de litterature historique. Vincent Artuso, woxx, Nr 1178, August 31, 2012. Fur [...] Pit Peporte, der sein Buch uber die Konstruktion des Mittelalters mit diesem Beispiel aus jungster Vergangenheit beginnt, ist die Debatte uber die nationalen Qualitaten des mittelalterlichen Wappentiers ein gutes Beispiel, wie Geschichte, hier in Gestalt einer traditionellen Symbolik, von einem nationalen Diskurs instrumentalisiert werden kann. Jean-Louis Scheffen, Telecran, June 2012, pp. 134-137 [A] worthy addition to the growing literature on inventing historical memory [...]. James M. Murray, perspectivia.net, February 2012
This book is a mine of information for anyone interested in the history of medievalism. By highlighting the intercultural crossings between Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany, and France, Peporte follows indirectly the histoire croisee approach. His findings will be of great value to scholars of Europe's entagled history. - Stefan Goebel, in:Speculum 88/2 (April 2013), pp 565-566 Le projet qu'il a mene a son terme impressionne non seulement par son ambition mais aussi par son audace. Partant du constat que l'ecriture du passe a fatalement quelque chose de factice, l'historien s'est emancipe des subdivisions traditionnelles de sa discipline pour parcourir, avec un sens critique aiguise, pres d'un millenaire de litterature historique. - Vincent Artuso, in: woxx 1178 (31 August 2012) Fur [...] Pit Peporte, der sein Buch uber die Konstruktion des Mittelalters mit diesem Beispiel aus jungster Vergangenheit beginnt, ist die Debatte uber die nationalen Qualitaten des mittelalterlichen Wappentiers ein gutes Beispiel, wie Geschichte, hier in Gestalt einer traditionellen Symbolik, von einem nationalen Diskurs instrumentalisiert werden kann. - Jean-Louis Scheffen, in: Telecran, June 2012, pp. 134-137 [A] worthy addition to the growing literature on inventing historical memory [...]. - James M. Murray, in: perspectivia.net, February 2012
This book is a mine of information for anyone interested in the history of medievalism. By highlighting the intercultural crossings between Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany, and France, Peporte follows indirectly the histoire croisee approach. His findings will be of great value to scholars of Europe's entagled history. - Stefan Goebel, in:Speculum 88/2 (April 2013), pp 565-566 Le projet qu'il a mene a son terme impressionne non seulement par son ambition mais aussi par son audace. Partant du constat que l'ecriture du passe a fatalement quelque chose de factice, l'historien s'est emancipe des subdivisions traditionnelles de sa discipline pour parcourir, avec un sens critique aiguise, pres d'un millenaire de litterature historique. - Vincent Artuso, in: woxx 1178 (31 August 2012) Fur [...] Pit Peporte, der sein Buch uber die Konstruktion des Mittelalters mit diesem Beispiel aus jungster Vergangenheit beginnt, ist die Debatte uber die nationalen Qualitaten des mittelalterlichen Wappentiers ein gutes Beispiel, wie Geschichte, hier in Gestalt einer traditionellen Symbolik, von einem nationalen Diskurs instrumentalisiert werden kann. - Jean-Louis Scheffen, in: Telecran, June 2012, pp. 134-137 [A] worthy addition to the growing literature on inventing historical memory [...]. - James M. Murray, in: perspectivia.net, February 2012
Author Information
Pit Péporté is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg. He is co-author of Inventing Luxembourg (Brill, 2010) and has co-edited Renaissance? Perceptions of Continuity and Discontinuity in Europe c.1300-c.1550 (Brill, 2010).
