Multiple Antiquities - Multiple Modernities

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Multiple Antiquities - Multiple Modernities is written by Gábor Klaniczay and published by Campus Verlag. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3593391015 (ISBN 10) and 9783593391014 (ISBN 13).

Antiquity, as the term has been understood and used over the centuries by scholars, political and religious figures, and ordinary citizens, is far from a single, monolithic concept. Rather than reflecting a stable, shared understanding about the past and its meaning, the idea of antiquity is instead varying and multiple, taking on different meanings and deployed to different effects depending on the context in which it is being considered. In this volume, historians from a wide range of specialties offer a comparative assessment of the multiple perceptions of antiquity that have shaped modern European cultures and national identities, deploying a new methodological approach, histoire croisée, which considers these questions in light of the development of cultural diversity across Europe.