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Title:

Germania remembered 1500-2009 : commemorating and inventing a Germanic past / edited by Christina Lee and Nicola McLelland.

Publisher:

ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies),

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xxxvii, 415 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Germany--History--To 1517--Sources.
Germany--Historiography.--To 1517--Historiography.
Germany--Anniversaries, etc.
Memorialization--Germany--History.
Historiography--Germany--History.

Other Authors:

Lee, Christina, 1967-
McLelland, Nicola, 1970-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Conrad Celtis (1459-1508), the pride of German humanists / John L. Flood -- 'Knowing no other paintings than their shields': the Germanic origins of art in the seventeenth century / Thijs Weststeijn -- Germanic virtues in linguistic discourse in Germany (1500-1945) / Nicola McLelland -- A useful great-grandmother: edda receptions in post-medieval Germany / Christina Lee -- Germania in England: functions of the Germanic in English identity constructions and British historical thinking / Maike Oergel -- 'Not a foreign goddess': Germania, the Niederwald monument, and discourses of gender and nationalism / Geraldine Horan -- Consecrated groves: British India and the forests of Germania / Ananya Jahanara Kabir -- The two faces of a national hero: Ulrich con Hutten's Arminius (1515/1529) and Heinrich von Kleist's Herrmann (1808) / Rachel MagShamhr©Łin -- Ironic mythopoetics of absolute sovereignty in Heinrich von Kleist's Herrmannsschlacht (1808) / Tomislav Zeli♯ -- Imagining Thusnelda and Thumelicus: Carl Wilhelm Goettling and Friedrich Halm's Der Fechter von Ravenna / Judith Beniston -- Urkl©Þnge: the search for the origins of German music (1910-1950) / Alexander Rehding -- From H©Łvam©Łl to racial hygiene: Guido List's Das Geheimnis der Runen, "the secret of the runes" (1908) / Martin Findell -- Germania on stage: Nazi thing theatre / Anselm Heinrich -- Anselm Kiefer, die Hermannsschlacht, and the battle of modernism / Martin Brady -- Leaving the forest: 'Hermann the German' as cultural representation from nationalism to post-modern consumerism / Magnus Brechtken -- The global Westphalian: Arminius/Hermann as a post-national identification figure / Andreas Musolff.

Series:

Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies ; volume 425

ISBN:

0866984739 (alkaline paper)
9780866984737 (alkaline paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)819531702

LCCN:

2012044342

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)