Manufacturing a Past for the Present: Forgery and Authenticity in Medievalist Texts and Objects in Nineteenth-Century Europe

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 J nos M. Bak, Patrick J. Geary and G bor 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: Pavl na Rychterov , P ter D vidh zi, Pertti Anttonen, L szl Sz r nyi, J nos M. Bak, N ra Berend, Benedek L ng, Igor P. Medvedev, Dan D.Y. Shapira, J nos Gy rgy Szil gyi, Cristina La Rocca, Giedre Mickūnaite, Johan Hegardt and S ndor Radn ti.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004276807
• ISBN13: 9789004276802
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"