Medievalism in Finland and Russia : twentieth- and twenty-first century aspects

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Figures -- Maps -- Tables -- Contributors -- The background and mission of the volume -- The shared history of Finland and Russia -- Outline of the book -- Preface: Medievalism in Finland and R...

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Weitere Verfasser: Välimäki, Reima (HerausgeberIn)
Format: E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022
Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel:New directions in medieval studies
Schlagworte:Medievalism Finland-History-20th century Russia-History Mittelalterbild Electronic books
Umfang:1 online resource (265 pages)
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Zusammenfassung:Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Figures -- Maps -- Tables -- Contributors -- The background and mission of the volume -- The shared history of Finland and Russia -- Outline of the book -- Preface: Medievalism in Finland and Russia and why it matters -- The background and mission of the volume -- The shared history of Finland and Russia -- Outline of the book -- Acknowledgements -- Note on bibliography -- Introduction: Who owns the Middle Ages? Metamedievalism and structural exclusion -- Introduction -- Medievalism and the Christchurch shootings -- Jacob Rees-Mogg and the Victorians -- Caravans of Gold -- Historical authority -- Web 2.0 and techno-utopianism -- The online subaltern -- Conclusion -- Chapter 1: The Middle Ages on the 'map of memory' of Russian society -- Introduction -- Methodology, terminology and the sources of memory -- The Middle Ages as the 'Periphery' of national memory and Ivan the Terrible as the 'Name' of the Russian Middle Ages -- Heroes of the Russian Middle Ages and the 'war' over memory -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: 'A thousand years of history': References to the past in the addresses to the Federal Assembly by the president of Russia, 2000-19 -- Introduction -- Patriotism: 'Cultural traditions and common historic memory' -- Unity as protection against threats: 'A unique community of peoples' -- Justification: 'Invaluable civilizational and even sacral importance for Russia' -- Concluding words -- Chapter 3: Mapping the pseudohistorical knowledge space in the Russian World Wide Web -- Introduction -- Pseudocontents in the network of web medievalism -- Hyperlinks to the past and from the future -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: A lens most obscured: Western perceptions of contemporary Russian medievalisms -- Introduction -- New modes of distribution.
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Beschreibung:1 online resource (265 pages)
ISBN:9781350232914
1350232912
9781350232884
1350232882