Manufacturing a past for the present : forgery and authenticity in medievalist texts and objects in nineteenth-century Europe

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Acknowledgements ... vii Long Shadow of Ossian. Editors' Preface ... viii List of Figures ... xxv Notes on Contributors ... xxviii PART ONE SEARCHING FOR THE VOICE OF THE NATION 1 Manuscripts of Grunberg and Koeniginhof: Romantic Lies about the Glorious Past of the Czech Nation ... 3 Pavlina Rychterova 2 To Authenticate a Manuscript: Case of Toldy and Hanka, Hermeneutically Reconsidered ... 31 Peter Davidhazi 3 Kalevala and the Authenticity Debate ... 56 Pertti Anttonen 4 Janos Arany's Csaba Trilogy and Arnold Ipolyi's Hungarian Mythology ... 81 Laszlo Szoerenyi 5 From the Anonymous Gesta to the Flight of Zalan by Voeroesmarty ... 96 Janos M. Bak PART TWO INVENTING A PAST 6 Forging the Cuman Law, Forging an Identity ... 109 Nora Berend 7 Invented Middle Ages in Nineteenth-century Hungary. Forgeries of Samuel Literati Nemes ... 129 Benedek Lang 8 Excellent Scholar-Excellent Forger: Case of Karl Benedict Hase ... 144 Igor P. Medvedev 9 On Firkowicz, Forgeries and Forging Jewish Identities ... 156 Dan D. Y. Shapira PART THREE ANCIENT OBJECTS: FAKES AND PHANTASIES 10 Wisest is Time: Ancient Vase Forgeries ... 173 Janos Gyoergy Szilagyi 11 Agilulf, The Nonexistent Knight and the Forging of the Italian Germanic Past ... 224 Cristina La Rocca 12 Imagining the Real: Material Evidence and Participatory Past in Nineteenth-Century Lithuania ... 267 Giedre Mickunaite 13 Time Stopped. Open-air Museum Skansen of Artur Hazelius ... 287 Johan Hegardt 14 New York Cloisters: A Forgery? ... 307 Sandor Radnoti Index of Proper Names ... 317

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