The Antiquarians of the Nation : Monuments and Language in Nineteenth-Century Roussillon
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| Title: | The Antiquarians of the Nation : Monuments and Language in Nineteenth-Century Roussillon |
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| Description: | In the nineteenth century, the search for the artistic, architectural and written monuments promoted by the French State with the aim to build a unified nation transcending regional specificities, also fostered the development of local or regional identitary consciousness. In Roussillon, this distinctive consciousness relied on a basically cultural concept of nation epitomised mainly by the Catalan language – Roussillon being composed of Catalan counties annexed to France in 1659. In The Antiquarians of the Nation, Francesca Zantedeschi explores how the works of Roussillon's archaeologists and philologists, who retrieved and enhanced the Catalan specificities of the region, contributed to the early stages of a ‘national'(Catalan) cultural revival, and galvanised the implicit debate between (French) national history and incipient regional studies. |
| Authors: | Francesca Zantedeschi |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Archaeology and state--France--Roussillon (Province)--History--19th century, Language policy--France--Roussillon (Province)--History, Historic preservation--France--Roussillon (Province)--History--19th century |
| Categories: | HISTORY / Europe / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | In the nineteenth century, the search for the artistic, architectural and written monuments promoted by the French State with the aim to build a unified nation transcending regional specificities, also fostered the development of local or regional identitary consciousness. In Roussillon, this distinctive consciousness relied on a basically cultural concept of nation epitomised mainly by the Catalan language – Roussillon being composed of Catalan counties annexed to France in 1659. In The Antiquarians of the Nation, Francesca Zantedeschi explores how the works of Roussillon's archaeologists and philologists, who retrieved and enhanced the Catalan specificities of the region, contributed to the early stages of a ‘national'(Catalan) cultural revival, and galvanised the implicit debate between (French) national history and incipient regional studies. |
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| ISBN: | 9789004368965 9789004390270 |
