'Celtic' and 'Gothic' both words refer today to both ancient tribes and modern styles. 'Celtic' is associated with harp music, native knitwear, and spirituality; 'Gothic' with medieval cathedrals, rock bands, and horror fiction. The eleven essays collected together here chart some of the curious and unexpected ways in which the Celts and the Goths were appropriated and reinvented in Britain and other European countries through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries - becoming not just mythologised races, but lending their names to abstract principles and entire value systems....
'Celtic' and 'Gothic' both words refer today to both ancient tribes and modern styles. 'Celtic' is associated with harp music, native knitwear, and sp...
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...
In search of specific national traditions nineteenth-century artists and scholars did not shy of manipulating texts and objects or even outright manuf...
