Constructing Catalan Identity Memory, Imagination, and the Medieval /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Vargas, Michael A. (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Europe-History-476-1492.; Europe-History-1492-.; Historiography.; Civilization-History.; History of Medieval Europe.; History of Modern Europe.; Memory Studies.; Cultural History.

This is a book about how Catalans use their past, real and imagined, in the construction of their present and future. Michael A. Vargas inventories the significant people, signal events, and familiar icons that constitute the Catalan collective memory, from Wilfred the Hairy and Sant Jordi to the mo...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• I. Inventory
• 2. Events and Accidents
• 3. Princes and People
• 4. Patrons, Protectors, and Creative Defenders
• 5. Castle, Coast, and Cathedral
• II. Making Meaning
• 6. Decadence and Renaissance
• 7. Medievalizing and Modernizing
• 8. Fighting Words. 9. Epilogue: In an October of Another Year.