Time's witness : history in the age of Romanticism
Hill, Rosemary (Historian)2021
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From the fall of the Bastille in 1789 to 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. From scholars to imposters the dozen or so antiquaries at the heart of this book show us history in the making.
Main title:
Time's witness : history in the age of Romanticism / Rosemary Hill.
Author:
Hill, Rosemary (Historian), author
Imprint:
London : Allen Lane, 2021.
Collation:
416 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781846143120 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
940.28940.28 HIL
Language:
English
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BRN:
2530646
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