‎Early European Research, vol. 16‎
‎Historiography and the Shaping of Regional Identity in Europe. Regions in Clio's Looking Glass‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, 301 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:38 b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503590714.‎

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‎Summary Over the centuries, historiography - in many different forms - became an important vehicle by which to create, articulate, and express the existence, awareness, and characteristics of Europe's regions. Be it the histories of noble families that were important stakeholders in a region, urban histories describing the developing urban networks through which regions could function, dynastic histories emphasizing the relationship between ruler and region, or hagiographies describing holy men and women and their veneration as focal points within regions - all of them represented and reflected identities within an understood spatial and or mental sphere. Historiography can therefore help us to understand the way in which regions were seen from within and from without, and to understand the patterns and dynamics of regional cohesion. Moreover, it sheds light on the dialectic between nation and region, and on the relationship between the regional sphere and the wider (inter)national sphere. The authors of this volume look at individual European regions from different points of view, using historiography as a lens. They analyse the ways in which history as a construct has played a role in establishing regional identity, providing examples of the ways in which recording, interpreting, and recounting the history of regions through the ages has been instrumental in shaping these regions. The first section of the volume explores regional identity in medieval and early modern historiography; the second shows how, in the age of the invention and triumph of the European nation-state (the long nineteenth century), historiography of a new kind was applied for a deliberate creation of regional identity, or at least reflected the need for a historical confirmation of identities. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations, Acknowledgements Regions in Clio's Looking Glass: Introduction - DICK DE BOER AND LUIS AD O DA FONSECA Regions and Historiography: Reflections on the Ways in which Different Types of Historiography Shaped and Changed Regional Identities - DICK DE BOER AND LUIS AD O DA FONSECA Part I. Regional identity in Medieval and Early Modern Historiography Boemi and the Others: Shaping the Regional Identity of Medieval Bohemia (Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries) - JANA FANTYSOV -MAT?JKOV From the Duchy of Few to the Homeland of Many: Regional Identity in Silesian Medieval and Early Modern Historiography (c. 1200 - c. 1525) - PRZEMYS?AW WISZEWSK Chronicles of the Towns of Upper Lusatia as a Mirror of the Political and Cultural Identity of the Region - LENKA BOBKOV , PETR HRACHOVEC, AND JAN ZDICHYNEC From Principality into Province: The Historiography of the Guelders-Lower Rhine Region, from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries - JOB WESTSTRATE Transylvania in the Historical Writing of Nicolaus Olahus (Sixteenth Century) - CORNELIA POPA-GORJANU Part II. The Creation of Regional Identity in Nineteenth Century Historiography Regional Saints and Saints' Regions: Post- Medieval Appropriation of Sainthood - NILS HOLGER PETERSEN Conceptions of History and Imagined Regions in the Baltic Provinces in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - LINDA KALJUNDI AND AIVAR P LDVEE National Regionalisms before Political Ideologies: Schleswig-Holstein in 1848 - MICHAEL BREGNSBO Constructing and Deconstructing the Medieval Origin of Catalonia - FLOCEL SABAT Inventing Limburg (the Netherlands): Territory, History, Identity - AD KNOTTER *** Index of Keywords‎