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The present volume tries to do justice to the variety of
self-representational strategies in the art and literature of the
late medieval and early modern period by focusing on both the
traditional con texts of self-definition (such as courts, schools
and religious institutions) and the more innovative contexts of
humanist art and literature. The essays collected in this volume
represent some of the scholarly approaches to historical
testimonies of self-representation and self-fashioning, and hence
deal with the literary, artistic, philosophical and theological
conceptions of the self. They are preceded by a more general essay
indexing the ways in which self-representational texts,
ego-documents and self-testimonies should be defined.
Fore mote than three decades the problem of the transition from
medieval to early modern time has been an important issue of debate
for various disciplines within cultural history. The essays in this
collection will explore the historical developments in these
epochs, focusing on the relation between tradition and innovation
on three levels: (1) perceptions of the world and changing
geographical boundaries; (2) literary activity in the social
environment of towns and humanist circles; and (3) new modes of
interpretation and representation in intellectual history.
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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