Italy’s Various Middle Ages

Moretti, Mauro; Porciani, Ilaria

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“…Yet it was not easy to imagine from when this history should begin: with the national state, as argued by Benedetto Croce, or with the Middle Ages, as the scholars of the mid-nineteenth century suggested (Moretti and Porciani 2011)? With the Romans or with the ancient Italic people that left their mark on the dialects that arose from mediaeval Latin?…”

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National Museums and Nation-Building in Europe 1750–2010

Aronsson¹,

Elgenius

2014

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Europe's national museums have been at the centre of on-going nation-making processes, since their creation. These museums have successfully negotiated conflicts and contradictions to obtain the support of citizens and taxpayers, domestic and foreign visitors, scientists, art connoisseurs, and policy makers. National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010 assess the national museum as a manifestation of cultural and political desires, rather than a straightforward representation of the historical facts of a nation.Examining the degree to which national museums have created models and representations of nations, their past, present and future, this book proceeds to assess the consequences of such attempts. Revealing how different types of nations and statesformer empires, monarchies, republics, pre-modern, modern or post-imperial entitiesdeploy and prioritise different types of museums in their making, it constitutes the first comprehensive and comparative perspective on national museums in Europe and their intricate relationship to the making of nations and states. significant aspects of national museums in Europe, including nation-and statebuilding, museum policy and visitor experience. The European Commission made the collaboration of eight universities possible. This programme built on a previous series of international conferences supported by Marie Curie and Namu -Making National Museums, which created an extensive network of both senior researchers and PhD students from around the world. The partners of Eunamus are hereby thanked and acknowledged for their enthusiasm, extensive planning and the demanding management of this exciting research programme. We are grateful to the dedication of the six partners -

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Section: Blut Boden and Gendermentioning

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National Museums and Nation-Building in Europe 1750–2010

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Elgenius

2014

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Italy’s Various Middle Ages

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