This book provocatively argues that much of what English writers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries remembered about medieval English geography, history, religion and literature, they remembered by means of medieval and modern Scandinavia. These memories, in turn, figured in something even broader. Protestant and fundamentally monarchical, the Nordic countries constituted a politically kindred spirit in contrast with France, Italy and Spain. Along with the so-called Celtic fringe and overseas colonies, Scandinavia became one of the external reference points for the forging of the United Kingdom. Subject to the continual refashioning of memory, the region became at once an image of Britain’s noble past and an affirmation of its current global status, rendering trips there rides on a time machine.
Spis treści
1 The spectacle of history2 Modern travel, medieval places
3 Ethnography and heritage
4 An open air museum
5 Stories that make things real
6 Narrative, memory, meaning
Index
O autorze
Dr Anke Bernau is Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester
Język Angielski ● Format EPUB ● Strony 200 ● ISBN 9781526145376 ● Rozmiar pliku 0.9 MB ● Wydawca Manchester University Press ● Miasto Manchester ● Kraj GB ● Opublikowany 2020 ● Do pobrania 24 miesięcy ● Waluta EUR ● ID 7452105 ● Ochrona przed kopiowaniem Adobe DRM
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