05509oam 2200613 450 991082898390332120191016100053.090-04-41065-110.1163/9789004410657(CKB)4100000009373179(MiAaPQ)EBC5900187(OCoLC)1107067003(nllekb)BRILL9789004410657(EXLCZ)99410000000937317920190615d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAmbitious antiquities, famous forebears constructions of a glorious past in the early modern Netherlands and in Europe /Karl A.E. Enenkel, Konrad A. Ottenheym ; translated by Alexander C. ThomsonLeiden Boston :BRILL,2019.1 online resource (443 pages)Brill's Studies in Intellectual History;volume307/41"This volume is a revised and augmented translation of Oudheid als ambitie: De zoektocht naar een passend verleden, 1400-1700, published by Vantilt, Nijmegen (ISBN 9789460043253)"--Title page verso.90-04-36139-1 Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-429) and index.Front Matter -- Copyright page /Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- Introduction /Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- Thinking about the Antiquities of Europe /Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- Antiquity, a Source of Power and Prestige: the Competition for Antiquities in Early Modern Europe /Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- Supposed Ancestors /Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- The Origin Legends of the European Nations /Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- What Is Antiquity? The Early Modern Chronology of History /Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- A Malleable Past: On ‘Proof’, Interpretations, Errors and Falsifications /Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- Humanists and Antiquities in the Northern Low Countries /Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- The Batavians as Ancestors in Early Dutch Humanism: Erasmus, Aurelius and Geldenhouwer /Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- Attempts to Find the Origins of Architecture in the Northern Low Countries: On Romans, Batavians and Giants /Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- The Chivalric Past of the Dutch Republic /Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- From Chivalric Family Tree to ‘National’ Gallery: the Portrait Series of the Counts of Holland, c. 1490–1650 /Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- Living as Befits a Knight: New Castles in Seventeenth-Century Holland /Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- The Mediaeval Prestige of Dutch Cities /Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- Conclusion /Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- Notes /Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- Back Matter -- Figures /Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- Bibliography /Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- Index /Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym.This monograph studies the constructions of ‘impressive’ historical descent manufactured to create ‘national’, regional, or local antiquities in early modern Europe (1500-1700), especially the Netherlands. This was a period characterised by important political changes and therefore by an increased need for legitimation; a need which was met using historical claims. Literature, scholarship, art and architecture were pivotal media that were used to furnish evidence of the impressively old lineage of states, regions or families. These claims related not only to Classical antiquity (in the generally-known sense) but also to other periods that were regarded as periods of antiquity, such as the chivalric age. The authors of this volume analyse these intriguing early modern constructions of appropriate “antiquities” and investigate the ways in which they were applied in political, intellectual and artistic contexts in Europe, especially in the Northern Low Countries. This book is a revised and augmented translation of Oudheid als ambitie: De zoektocht naar een passend verleden, 1400–1700 (Nijmegen: Vantilt, 2017).Brill's Studies in Intellectual History;volume307/41.Classical antiquitiesStudy and teachingNetherlandsClassical antiquitiesPolitical aspectsNetherlandsClassicistsAttitudesArts, ClassicalInfluenceCivilization, ModernClassical influencesClassical antiquitiesStudy and teachingEuropeClassical antiquitiesPolitical aspectsEuropeClassical antiquitiesStudy and teachingClassical antiquitiesPolitical aspectsClassicistsAttitudes.Arts, ClassicalInfluence.Civilization, ModernClassical influences.Classical antiquitiesStudy and teachingClassical antiquitiesPolitical aspects930Enenkel K. A. E.858384Ottenheym KoenThomson Alexander C.NL-LeKBNL-LeKBBOOK9910828983903321Ambitious antiquities, famous forebears4004433UNINA