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

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

Werktitel: Oudheid als ambitie

Beteiligte: Enenkel, Karl A. E. [VerfasserIn]; Ottenheym, Koen A. [VerfasserIn]; Thomson, Alexander C. [ÜbersetzerIn]

Erschienen: Leiden; Boston: Brill, [2019]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 437 Seiten); Illustrationen

Sprache: Englisch; Niederländisch

DOI: 10.1163/9789004410657

ISBN: 9789004410657

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Schlagwörter: Antike > Rezeption > Niederlande > Europa > Künste > Politik > Geschichte 1500-1800

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Anmerkungen: "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)"
Includes bibliographical references and index

Beschreibung: Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Introduction -- Thinking about the Antiquities of Europe -- Antiquity, a Source of Power and Prestige: the Competition for Antiquities in Early Modern Europe -- Supposed Ancestors -- The Origin Legends of the European Nations /Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- What Is Antiquity? The Early Modern Chronology of History -- A Malleable Past: On ‘Proof’, Interpretations, Errors and Falsifications -- Humanists and Antiquities in the Northern Low Countries -- The Batavians as Ancestors in Early Dutch Humanism: Erasmus, Aurelius and Geldenhouwer -- Attempts to Find the Origins of Architecture in the Northern Low Countries: On Romans, Batavians and Giants -- The Chivalric Past of the Dutch Republic -- From Chivalric Family Tree to ‘National’ Gallery: the Portrait Series of the Counts of Holland, c. 1490–1650 -- Living as Befits a Knight: New Castles in Seventeenth-Century Holland -- The Mediaeval Prestige of Dutch Cities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Back Matter -- Figures -- Bibliography -- Index

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 need for legitimation; a need which was met using historical claims. Literature, scholarship, art and architecture were pivotal media that were used to furnish evidence of the impressively old lineage of states, regions or families. These claims related not only to Classical antiquity (in the generally-known sense) but also to other periods that were regarded as periods of antiquity, such as the chivalric age. The authors of this volume analyse these intriguing early modern constructions of appropriate “antiquities” and investigate the ways in which they were applied in political, intellectual and artistic contexts in Europe, especially in the Northern Low Countries. This book is a revised and augmented translation of Oudheid als ambitie: De zoektocht naar een passend verleden, 1400–1700 (Nijmegen: Vantilt, 2017).

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