The antiquarians of the nation : monuments and language in nineteenth-century Roussillon / by Francesca Zantedeschi.
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 distin...
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| Other title: | Monuments and language in 19th century Roussillon. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2019]
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| Series: | National cultivation of culture ;
v. 16. |
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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 312 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004390278 9789004390270 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 31, 2019) |