Inventing the Pasts in North Central Europe

The National Perception of Early Medieval History and Archaeology

346 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This volume relates to a comparative research of historical developments and structures in North Central Europe, which is directed to the exploration of an early medieval design of this historical region beyond the Roman Empire’s culture frontier. One point of the editorial concern thus was building bridges to overcome long existing dividing lines built up by divergent perspectives of previous scientific traditions. In addition, the recent come back of national histories and historiographies call for a scrutiny on the suitability of postulated ethnicities for the postsocialist nation building process. As a result, the collected papers – presented partly in English, partly in German – have a critical look into various influences, responsible for the realization of images of the past as of scientific strategies.

• Reihe: Gesellschaften und Staaten im Epochenwandel / Societies and States in Transformation
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Theorie und Methoden Geschichtsschreibung, Historiographie
• ISBN: 9783631505380
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.09.2003
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Band herausgegeben von: Matthias Hardt, Christian Lübke, Dittmar Schorkowitz