The Making of Medieval History

258 Pages·2017·17.017 MB·English

by  Graham A. Loud, Martial Staub

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MEDIEVAL HISTORY
Edited by GRAHAM A. LOUD
An imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd
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THE MAKING OF MEDIEVAL HISTORY
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THE MAKING OF
MEDIEVAL HISTORY
Edited by
Graham A. Loud and Martial Staub
YORK MEDIEVAL PRESS
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements xi
List of Contributors xiii
Introduction
Graham A. Loud and Martial Staub, Some Thoughts on the Making
of the Middle Ages 1
Part One: Imagining / Inventing the Middle Ages 15
1 Jinty Nelson, Why Re-Inventing Medieval History is a Good Idea 17
2 Ian Wood, Literary Composition and the Early Medieval Historian
in the Nineteenth Century 37
Part Two: Constructing a European Identity 55
3 Patrick Geary, European Ethnicities and European as an Ethnicity:
Does Europe Have Too Much History? 57
4 Michael Borgolte, A Crisis of the Middle Ages? Deconstructing and
Constructing European Identities in a Globalized World 70
Part Three: National history / Notions of Myth 85
5 Bastian Schlüter, Barbarossa’s Heirs: Nation and Medieval History
in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany 87
6 Joep Leerssen, Once Upon a Time in Germany: Medievalism,
Academic Romanticism and Nationalism 101
7 Bernhard Jussen, Between Ideology and Technology: Depicting
Charlemagne in Modern Times 127
Part Four: Land and Frontiers 153
8 Richard Hitchcock, Reflections on the Frontier in Early Medieval
Iberia 155
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9 Christian Lübke, Germany’s Growth to the East: from the Polabian
Marches to Germania Slavica 167
Part Five: Rewriting Medieval Religion 185
10 Christine Caldwell Ames, Distance and Difference: Medieval
Inquisition as American History 187
11 Peter Biller, Mind the Gap: Modern and Medieval ‘Religious’
Vocabularies 207
Index 223
ILLUSTRATIONS
Chapter 5: Bastian Schlüter
1 The Kyffhäuser monument: the statue of Frederick Barbarossa 94
(Photo by Diane Milburn)
2 The Kyffhäuser monument: William I and Barbarossa (Photo by 94
Diane Milburn)
Chapter 6: Joep Leerssen
1 The Goslar Kaisersaal: west wall (with central allegory) and south 114
wall (with doorway)
2 The Goslar Kaisersaal: central allegory of the Empire’s restoration 116
(west wall)
3 The Goslar Kaisersaal: ground plan of the Kaisersaal and structure 117
of Wislicenus’s programme
4 The Goslar Kaisersaal: Frederic Barbarossa implores Henry the Lion 118
to support his crusade (west wall)
5 The Goslar Kaisersaal: Barbarossa re-emerges from the Kyffhäuser 120
cavern (north wall)
6 The Goslar Kaisersaal: the Reich as Sleeping Beauty; comatose 121
magistracy and army (east wall)
7 The Goslar Kaisersaal: the birth of Sleeping Beauty (south wall) 122
8 The Goslar Kaisersaal: history comes full circle (north wall) 124
Chapter 7: Bernhard Jussen
1 Page of the French schoolbook Bonifacio/Mérieult, Histoire de 129
France. Images et récits; Cours élementaire, illustrated by Albert Brenet
(Paris, 1952), pp. 8–9; Braunschweig, Georg Eckert Institut
viii Illustrations
2 Coronation of Charlemagne from Adolf Streckfuß’s Das deutsche Volk, 131
illustrated by Ludwig Löffler (Berlin, 1862), p. 68; Frankfurt am Main,
Goethe Universität
3 Coronation of Charlemagne from Wilhelm Zimmermann’s 131
Illustrierte Geschichte des Deutschen Volkes (Stuttgart, 1873), p. 418;
Frankfurt am Main, Goethe Universität
4 Re-engraving of Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld’s painting of the 132
coronation of Charlemagne (1839–40), frontispiece from Karl Heinrich
Ludwig Pölitz’s Die Weltgeschichte für gebildete Leser und Studierende,
vol. 2 (Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main, 1820); Frankfurt am Main,
Goethe Universität
5 Re-engraving of a photograph of Friedrich Kaulbach’s painting of 133
the coronation of Charlemagne (1861) by Adolf Closs, from Johannes
Scherr’s Germania. Zwei Jahrtausende deutschen Lebens (Stuttgart, 1879),
p. 68; Frankfurt am Main, Goethe Universität
6 Photographic reproduction of Friedrich Kaulbach’s painting of the 133
coronation of Charlemagne (1861) from Richard Du Moulin-Eckart’s
Vom alten Germanien zum neuen Reich (Stuttgart, Berlin and Leipzig,
1926), p. 64; Frankfurt am Main, Goethe Universität
7 Saint Charlemagne, French postcard from the early twentieth 135
century; private collection
8 Charlemagne in the monastic school from Richard Du Moulin- 136
Eckart’s Vom alten Germanien zum neuen Reich, p. 75; Frankfurt am
Main, Goethe Universität
9 Charlemagne in the monastic school from Johannes Scherr’s 136
Germania (Stuttgart, 1879); Frankfurt am Main, Goethe Universität
10 Postcard with the statue of Roland, around 1900; private collection 139
11 Collectible picture card ‘Roland’s death’ from the album Vermächtnis 139
der Vergangenheit (Legacy of the Past) of the Vereinigte Margarine-
Werke, Nuremberg 1952; Frankfurt am Main, Goethe Universität
12 Collectible picture card ‘Der Roland. Anno 1404’ of the Le-Ha-Ve 140
(Lebensmittel-Handels-Vereinigung), Hamburg 1927; Frankfurt am
Main, Goethe-Universität
13 Reverse of the watercolour of Charlemagne receiving the emissaries 142
of Harun al Rashid; Plochingen, Verlagsarchiv Siegfried Driess
14 Front of the watercolour of Charlemagne receiving the emissaries of 142
Harun al Rashid
15 Re-engraving of a photographic reproduction of Rethel’s coronation 146
from Theodor Ebner’s Illustrierte Geschichte Deutschlands (Stuttgart,
1890 [orig. 1887]), p. 179; Frankfurt am Main, Goethe Universität
Illustrations ix
16 Charlemagne and Widukind from Eberhard Orthbandt’s Illustrierte 148
Deutsche Geschichte, Munich, 1963); Frankfurt am Main, Goethe
Universität
17 Collectible picture card ‘Karel de Groote, een school bezoekend’ of 149
the Dutch chocolate company Bensdorp around 1912; Frankfurt am
Main, Goethe-Universität
18 Collectible picture card from the Helden (Heroes) album of the 150
Cologne chocolate factory Stollwerck, 1908; Frankfurt am Main,
Goethe-Universität
19 Collectible picture card of the imperial coronation of Charlemagne 151
800 CE, from the Alles für Deutschland (Everything for Germany)
album of the Yosma company (Bremen, 1934); Frankfurt am Main,
Goethe-Universität
20 Collectible picture card of the imperial coronation of Charlemagne 152
800 CE from the Deutsche Geschichte album of the Herba company,
Plochingen 1953; Frankfurt am Main, Goethe-Universität
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