<i>Manufacturing a Past for the Present</i> 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...
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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
Contents; Acknowledgements; The Long Shadow of Ossian. Editors' Preface; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Part 1 Searching for the Voice of the Nation; Chapter 1 The Manuscripts of Grünberg and Königinhof: Romantic Lies about the Glorious Past of the Czech Nation; Chapter 2 To Authenticate a Manuscript: The Case of Toldy and Hanka, Hermeneutically Reconsidered; Chapter 3 The Kalevala and the Authenticity Debate; Chapter 4 János Arany's Csaba Trilogy and Arnold Ipolyi's Hungarian Mythology; Chapter 5 From the Anonymous Gesta to the Flight of Zalán by Vörösmarty; Part 2 Inventing a Past
Chapter 6 Forging the Cuman Law, Forging an IdentityChapter 7 Invented Middle Ages in Nineteenth-century Hungary. The Forgeries of Sámuel Literáti Nemes; Chapter 8 Excellent Scholar-Excellent Forger: The Case of Karl Benedict Hase; Chapter 9 On Firkowicz, Forgeries and Forging Jewish Identities; Part 3 "Ancient" Objects: Fakes and Fantasies; Chapter 10 Wisest is Time: Ancient Vase Forgeries; Chapter 11 Agilulf, "The Nonexistent Knight" and the Forging of the Italian "Germanic" Past; Chapter 12 Imagining the Real: Material Evidence and Participatory Past in Nineteenth-Century Lithuania
Chapter 13 Time Stopped. The Open-air Museum Skansen of Artur HazeliusChapter 14 The New York Cloisters: A Forgery?; Index of Proper Names