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Building the Past = - Konstruktion Der Eigenen Vergangenheit (English, German, Paperback)
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Building the Past = - Konstruktion Der Eigenen Vergangenheit (English, German, Paperback)
Series: Medieval To Early Modern Culture/Kultureller Wandel Vom Mitt, 7
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Historical interest is rooted in a quest for identity. The
histories of tribes, communities and nations help to define their
selfhood, and hence their pasts are inevitably modelled on an
implicit program stating the use that an author, a ruler or a
community wants to make of real or imagined history. History thus
becomes a malleable concept accommodating the requirements of
self-definition of individuals, or of social and ethnic groups. It
also furnishes the fictional props of the ideologies of states and
nascent states that are in need of national mythologies to boost
their self-esteem. Under the general title Building the Past the
various ends and purposes of historical reconstruction and
invention in the late medieval and early modern period are examined
in this volume by scholars from various specialised fields. Their
contributions are grouped in two sections, Rediscovery of the Past
and Construction of National Myths.
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