Ambitious Antiquities, Famous Forebears

Constructions of a Glorious Past in the Early Modern Netherlands and in Europe

Karl A.E. Enenkel, Konrad Adriaan Ottenheym (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

444 Seiten

2019
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-36139-3 (ISBN)

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This study is dedicated to the constructions of “national”, regional/ local antiquities in early modern Europe, 1500-1700, especially the Northern Low Countries.

This monograph studies the constructions of ‘impressive’ historical descent manufactured to create ‘national’, regional, or local antiquities in early modern Europe (1500-1700), especially the Netherlands. This was a period characterised by important political changes and therefore by an increased need for legitimation; a need which was met using historical claims. Literature, scholarship, art and architecture were pivotal media that were used to furnish evidence of the impressively old lineage of states, regions or families. These claims related not only to Classical antiquity (in the generally-known sense) but also to other periods that were regarded as periods of antiquity, such as the chivalric age. The authors of this volume analyse these intriguing early modern constructions of appropriate “antiquities” and investigate the ways in which they were applied in political, intellectual and artistic contexts in Europe, especially in the Northern Low Countries.

This book is a revised and augmented translation of Oudheid als ambitie: De zoektocht naar een passend verleden, 1400–1700 (Nijmegen: Vantilt, 2017).

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 focused on Dutch architecture and architectural theory of the early modern period with a special attention to its relationships with other European regions.

Introduction

Part 1: Thinking about the Antiquities of Europe

1 Antiquity, a Source of Power and Prestige: the Competition for Antiquities in Early Modern Europe

2 Supposed Ancestors

3 The Origin Legends of the European Nations

4 What Is Antiquity? The Early Modern Chronology of History

5 A Malleable Past: On ‘Proof’, Interpretations, Errors and Falsifications

Part 2: Humanists and Antiquities in the Northern Low Countries

6 The Batavians as Ancestors in Early Dutch Humanism: Erasmus, Aurelius and Geldenhouwer

7 Attempts to Find the Origins of Architecture in the Northern Low Countries: On the Romans, Batavians and Giants

Part 3: The Chivalric Past of the Dutch Republic

8 From Chivalric Family Tree to ‘National’ Gallery: the Portrait Series of the Counts of Holland, c. 1490–1650

9 Living as Befits a Knight: New Castles in Seventeenth-Century Holland

10 The Mediaeval Prestige of Dutch Cities

Conclusion

Notes

List of Figures

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	24.09.2019
Reihe/Serie	Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History ; 307/41
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	951 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	90-04-36139-1 / 9004361391
ISBN-13	978-90-04-36139-3 / 9789004361393
Zustand	Neuware