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Inventing the Pasts in North Central Europe - The National Perception of Early Medieval History and Archaeology

English, German · Paperback / Softback

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This volume relates to a comparative research of historical developments and structures in North Central Europe, which is directed to the exploration of an early medieval design of this historical region beyond the Roman Empire's culture frontier. One point of the editorial concern thus was building bridges to overcome long existing dividing lines built up by divergent perspectives of previous scientific traditions. In addition, the recent come back of national histories and historiographies call for a scrutiny on the suitability of postulated ethnicities for the postsocialist nation building process. As a result, the collected papers - presented partly in English, partly in German - have a critical look into various influences, responsible for the realization of images of the past as of scientific strategies.

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Contents: Jerzy Gassowski: Is Ethnicity Tangible? - Sebastian Brather: Die Projektion des Nationalstaats in die Frühgeschichte. Ethnische Interpretationen in der Archäologie - Przemyslaw Urbanczyk: Do We Need Archaeology of Ethnicity? - Klavs Randsborg: The Making of Early Scandinavian History. Material Impressions - George Indruszewski: Early Medieval Ships as Ethnic Symbols and the Construction of a Historical Paradigm in Northern and Central Europe - Volker Schmidt: Die Prillwitzer Idole. Rethra und die Anfänge der Forschung im Land Stargard - Babette Ludowici: Magdeburg als Hauptort des ottonischen Imperiums. Bemerkungen zum Beitrag von Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte zur Konstruktion eines Geschichtsbildes - Arne Schmid-Hecklau: Deutsche Forschungen zur 'Reichsburg' Meißen. Ein Überblick - Stine Wiell: Der dänisch-deutsche Streit um die großen Moorwaffenfunde aus der Eisenzeit. Ansichten zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte aus dem 19. und 20. Jahrhundert - Christian Lübke: Barbaren, Leibeigene, Kolonisten: Zum Bild der mittelalterlichen Slaven in der deutschen Geschichtswissenschaft - Matthias Hardt: 'Schmutz und träges Hinbrüten bei allen'? Beispiele für den Blick der älteren deutschen Forschung auf slawische ländlich-agrarische Siedlungen des Mittelalters - Elaine Smollin: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Archaeology: Lithuania 1900-1918: The Intersection of Baltic, German and Slavic Cultures - Derek Fewster: Visionen nationaler Größe. Mittelalterperzeption, Ethnizität und Nationalismus in Finnland, 1905-1945 - Leszek Pawel Slupecki: Why Polish Historiography has Neglected the Role of Pagan Slavic Mythology - Dittmar Schorkowitz: Rekonstruktionen des Nationalen im postsowjetischen Raum. Beobachtungen zur Permanenz des Historischen.

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The Editors: Matthias Hardt is Special Coordinator for Medieval History and Archaeology at the Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas (GWZO) in Leipzig.
Christian Lübke lectures on Central and East European History at the Historical Institute of the University in Greifswald. He is also heading the Department «Germania Slavica» of the GWZO.
Dittmar Schorkowitz lectures on Central and East European History at the Free University of Berlin. He is editor-in-chief of the series Gesellschaften und Staaten im Epochenwandel (Peter Lang Publishers).


Product details

Assisted by Matthias Hardt (Editor), Christian Lübke (Editor), Dittmar Schorkowitz (Editor)
Publisher Peter Lang
 
Languages English, German
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.09.2016
 
EAN 9783631505380
ISBN 978-3-631-50538-0
No. of pages 346
Weight 450 g
Series Gesellschaften und Staaten im Epochenwandel / Societies and States in Transformation
Gesellschaften und Staaten im Epochenwandel / Societies and States in Transformation
Subject Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries

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