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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bouwers, E

Titel

Public Pantheons in Revolutionary Europe: Comparing Cultures of Remembrance, c. 1790-1840

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

London: Palgrave Macmillan

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 01 02 Drawing on a wide range of sources, Eveline G. Bouwers probes the construction and reception of remembrance cultures across early-nineteenth-century Europe. By way of an in-depth analysis of public pantheons (i.e. buildings where exemplary individuals were commemorated) she offers new insights into the cultural dimension of State formation and the politics of elite memory at a time usually associated with the spread of liberal-democratic ideas. Discussing in detail the canon of men and women included in each pantheon as well as the iconography of the built-space, Bouwers' study draws comparisons between commemorative practices in Britain, France, Germany, and Italy. In doing so, she points out that the commemoration of war and celebration of nationhood progressively gave way to the protection of elite interests, and in highlighting the peculiarities of each case, also provocatively claims that a shared European cultural history existed at the dawn of the Age of Nationalism. 31 02 Comparing four public pantheons across Revolutionary Europe, Bouwers analyses how the symbolic representation of socio-political ideas cultivated elite interests at the dawn of the Age of Nationalism 19 02 Breaks new ground in studies of remembrance cultures in early-nineteenth-century Europe Probes individual cultures of remembrance in relation to the surrounding sites of memory and as part of a wider European cultural history Interdisciplinary research, historically analysing the individuals and their commemoration, the aesthetics of commemoration, and their place in the wider political culture Challenges the limiting idea of a 'long nineteenth century', suggesting instead that cultural practices associated with the old regime persisted long after the revolutionary period 04 02 Acknowledgments Introduction: The Journey of the European Pantheonic Imagination Pantheon: the History of a Concept on the Move Competition in the Parliamentary Pantheon in London The Eclipse of Exemplarity: the Imperial Pantheon in Paris A Papal Pantheon? Canova's 'illustrious Italians' in Rome 'National education' in a Royal Pantheon in Regensburg Conclusions: Public Pantheons: a European History? Bibliography Appendices 13 02 EVELINE G. BOUWERS Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Bielefeld University, Germany. Her current research focuses on the use of violence and iconoclasm in the culture wars of modern Europe. She studied history, art history, and political science in Utrecht, Leuven and Amsterdam and holds a PhD from the European University Institute. 02 02 The story of how the concept of a pantheon, a building honouring great individuals, spread across Revolutionary Europe and interacted with socio-political and cultural changes. Analysing the canon and iconography of each pantheon, Bouwers shows how the commemoration of war and celebration of nationhood gave way to the protection of elite interests.