EAN: 9780141047096

TIMES WITNESS - ROSEMARY HILL KARTONIERT (TB)

From the Wolfson Prize-winning author of God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic
Britain Between the fall of the Bastille in 1789 and the opening of the Great Exhibition in
1851  history changed. The grand narratives of the Enlightenment  concerned with kings and
statesmen  gave way to a new interest in the lives of ordinary people. Oral history  costume
history  the history of food and furniture  of Gothic architecture  theatre and much else were
explored as never before. Antiquarianism  the study of the material remains of the past  was
not new  but now hundreds of men - and some women - became antiquaries and set about
rediscovering their national history  in Britain  France and Germany. The Romantic age valued
facts  but it also valued imagination and it brought both to the study of history. Among its
achievements were the preservation of the Bayeux Tapestry  the analysis and dating of Gothic
architecture  and the first publication of Beowulf. It dispelled old myths  and gave us new
ones: Shakespeare's birthplace  clan tartans and the arrow in Harold's eye are among their
legacies. From scholars to imposters the dozen or so antiquaries at the heart of this book show
us history in the making.

Aktuelle Preise zur EAN 9780141047096

Produktinformationen zur 9780141047096