Fazioli The Mirror of the Medieval

An Anthropology of the Western Historical Imagination
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-545-7
Verlag: Berghahn
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 29, 208 Seiten, Mobipocket Unencrypted

Reihe: Making Sense of History

Since its invention by Renaissance humanists, the myth of the "Middle Ages" has held a uniquely important place in the Western imagination. Whether envisioned as an era of lost simplicity or a barbaric nightmare, the medieval past has always served as a mirror for modernity. This book gives an eye-opening account of the ways various political and intellectual projects-from nationalism to the discipline of anthropology-have appropriated the Middle Ages for their own ends. Deploying an interdisciplinary toolkit, author K. Patrick Fazioli grounds his analysis in contemporary struggles over power and identity in the Eastern Alps, while also considering the broader implications for scholarly research and public memory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fazioli, K. Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables, Figures, and Maps

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I: ANTHROPOLOGY, HISTORY, AND THE MIDDLE AGES

Chapter 1. Manifesto for an Anthropology of Historicity

Chapter 2. Mirror of the Medieval

Chapter 3. Anthropology's Lost Medieval Heritage

PART II: IDENTITY, POWER, AND THE MEDIEVAL PAST IN THE EASTERN ALPINE REGION

Chapter 4. German Imperialism and the Early Medieval Past

Chapter 5. Slovenian Identity and the Early Medieval Past  

Chapter 6. Beyond Ethnicity: Technological Choice and Communities of Practice

Chapter 7. Christianization, Syncretism, and an Archaeology of Time

Conclusion: Mourning Modernity and the Myth of the Medieval

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fazioli, K. Patrick
K. Patrick Fazioli is an Assistant Professor in the School of Liberal Arts at Mercy College and a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University at Buffalo. He is the author of Technology, Identity, and Time: Studies in the Archaeology and Historical Anthropology of the Eastern Alpine from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages (2013).