Manufacturing a Past for the Present: Forgery and Authenticity in Medievalist Texts and Objects in Nineteenth-Century Europe (National Cultivation of Culture, 7)

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 Janos M. Bak, Patrick J. Geary and Gabor 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: Pavlina Rychterova, Peter Davidhazi, Pertti Anttonen, Laszlo Szorenyi, Janos M. Bak, Nora Berend, Benedek Lang, Igor P. Medvedev, Dan D.Y. Shapira, Janos Gyorgy Szilagyi, Cristina La Rocca, Giedr Mick nait, Johan Hegardt and Sandor Radnoti." The manuscripts of Grunberg and Koniginhof : romantic lies about the glorious past of the Czech nation / Pavlina Rychterova -- To authenticate a manuscript : the case of Toldy and Hanka, hermeneutically reconsidered / Peter Davidhazi -- The Kalevala and the authenticity debate / Pertti Anttonen -- Janos Arany's Csaba trilogy and Arnold Ipolyi's Hungarian mythology / Laszlo Szorenyi -- From the anonymous Gesta to The flight of Zalan by Vorosmarty / Janos M. Bak -- Forging the Cuman law, forging an identity / Nora Berend -- Invented Middle Ages in nineteenth-century Hungary : the forgeries of Samuel Literati Nemes / Benedek Lang -- Excellent scholar, excellent forger : the case of Karl Benedict Hase / Igor P. Medvedev -- On Firkowicz, forgeries and forging Jewish identities / Dan D.Y. Shapira -- Wisest is time : ancient vase forgeries / Janos Gyorgy Szilagyi -- Agilulf, "the Nonexistent Knight" and the forging of the Italian "Germanic" past / Cristina La Rocca -- Imagining the real : material evidence and participatory past in nineteenth-century Lithuania / Giedre Mickunaite -- Time stopped : the open-air museum Skansen of Arthur Hazelius / Johan Hegardt -- The New York Cloisters : a forgery? / Sandor Radnoti 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. 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 Jnos M. Bak, Patrick J. Geary and Gbor 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 Pavlna Rychterov, Pter Dvidhzi, Pertti Anttonen, Lszl Szrnyi, Jnos M. Bak, Nra Berend, Benedek Lng, Igor P. Medvedev, Dan D.Y. Shapira, Jnos Gyrgy Szilgyi, Cristina La Rocca, Giedre Micknaite, Johan Hegardt and Sndor Radnti. 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. --Provided by publisher Manufacturing a Past for the Present contains a series of essays on forgeries and manipulated texts and objects mainly in the service of modern nations emerging during the long nineteenth century, and reflections on the related debates on authenticity