The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture

This volume explores the various strategies of construing appropriate pasts in scholarship, literature, art, architecture and literature, in order to create "national", regional or local identities, in late medieval and early modern Europe.

About the author

Karl A.E. Enenkel is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the University of Münster. Previously he was Professor of Neo-Latin at the University of Leiden. He has published widely on international Humanism, early modern culture, paratexts, literary genres 1300-1600, Neo-Latin emblems, word and image relationships, and the history of scholarship and science.

Konrad A. Ottenheym is Professor of Architectural History at Utrecht University. His publications are focussed on Dutch architecture and architectural theory of the early modern period with a special attention to its relationships with other European regions.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.10.2018
• EAN: 9789004377684
• ISBN: 978-90-04-37768-4
• No. of pages: 820
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 241 mm x 38 mm
• Weight: 1588 g
• Series: Intersections
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages