1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778384503321

Autore

Popa Opritsa D

Titolo

Bibliophiles and bibliothieves [[electronic resource] ] : the search for the Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm Codex / / Opritsa D. Popa ; with a preface by Winder McConnell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : W. de Gruyter, 2003

ISBN

1-282-19560-3

9786612195600

3-11-020190-9

Edizione

[Reprint 2015]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Collana

Cultural property studies = Schriften zum Kulturgüterschutz

Altri autori (Persone)

McConnellWinder

Disciplina

940.53/18

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Germany

World War, 1939-1945 - Destruction and pillage - Germany

Art treasures in war - Germany

Cultural property - Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-254) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Captions -- Introduction and Acknowledgments -- Liber Sapientiae and Willehalm Codex, 1939-2002 - A Chronology -- Chapter 1: “They’ve sown the wind and now they reap the whirlwind” -- Chapter 2: “Habent Sua Fata Libelli” - Books Have Their Own Destiny -- Chapter 3: Countdown to Surrender -- Chapter 4: “Protect and Respect These Symbols...” -- Chapter 5: Of US Safe keepers, Soviet Trophy Commissars and Marauding Allied Soldiers -- Chapter 6: “Enjoy the War, the Peace Is Going to be Terrible!” -- Chapter 7: Hope Deferred -- Chapter 8: Going, Going, Gone! -- Chapter 9: “Belle of the Books” -- Chapter 10: The Professor -- Chapter 11: The Countess of Camarillo -- Chapter 12: Ardelia -- Chapter 13: From the Ashes of the Phoenix -- Chapter 14: Return of the Wounded Warrior -- Chapter 15: Eyewitness -- Chapter 16: Ten Years Later... Proof, Proof and More Proof -- Chapter 17: To Err is Human, to Admit, Divine -- Chapter 18 : The Owl of Minerva -- Chapter 19: “The Last, the Worst, Dull Spoiler, Who Was He?” -- Appendix



Sommario/riassunto

In Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves, Opritsa Popa has documented what might justifiably be described as the most celebrated case of looting of two German cultural treasures by a member of the U.S. Army at the end of World War II and their subsequent odyssey across both an ocean and a continent: the pilfering from a cellar in Bad Wildungen of the ninth-century Liber Sapientiae, containing the two leaves of the oldest extant German heroic poem, the Old High German Hildebrandslied, along with the fourteenth-century illuminated Willehalm codex, both of which had been removed from the State Library in Kassel for protection from bombing raids.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910583592003321

Autore

Mucher Christen

Titolo

Before American history : nationalist mythmaking and indigenous dispossession / / Christen Mucher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2022

Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , [2022]

ISBN

9780813948263

0813948266

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Writing the early Americas

Disciplina

970.0

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Historiography

Nationalism and historiography - United States

Nationalism and historiography - Mexico

Indians of North America - Antiquities - Collectors and collecting - History

Settler colonialism - United States - History

America Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ofering the "Indian" archive -- Storied lands of the "Old West" -- Mexico antiguo through americano eyes -- Nationalist science and the chronology of disposession -- Removal in the antiquarian archive --



An American Babylon in the Mexican Republic -- Epilogue: after American history.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book argues that the current understanding of North America's past was created as a tool of nationalism, and that it required the misappropriation of Indigenous histories. In the United States and Mexico, the Indigenous past was repurposed as American history while at the same time used to erase and denigrate Native peoples, a legacy that continues when we repeat these narratives"--