Local Antiquities, Local Identities : Art, Literature and Antiquarianism in Europe, C. 1400-1700.

Front matter -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- A local Renaissance: Florentine Quattrocento palaces and all'antica styles -- The Arch of Trajan in Ancona and civic identity in the Italian Quattrocento from Ciriaco d'Ancona to the death of Matthias Corvinus -- Roma caput mundi: Rome's local antiquities as symbol and source -- A local sense of the past: spolia, reuse and all'antica building in southern Italy, 1400-1600 -- The Gaulish past of Milan and the French invasion of Italy -- Reusing and redisplaying antiquities in early modern France -- Local antiquities in Spain: from Tarragona to Córdoba -- Local antiquaries and the expansive sense of the past: a case study from Counter-Reformation Spain -- Luís de Camões's The Lusiads and the paradoxes of expansion -- Semini and his progeny: the construction of Antwerp's antique past -- Resurrecting Belgica Romana: Peter Ernst von Mansfeld's garden of antiquities in Clausen, Luxemburg, 1563-90 -- On Romans, Batavians and giants: the quest for the true origin of architecture in the Dutch Republic -- The role of ancient remains in the Sarmatian culture of early modern Poland -- Inventing England: English identity and the Scottish 'other',1586-1625 -- Index.

This book considers a range of antiquarian practices - history-writing, archaeological investigations, works of art, architecture and literature - that emerged in early modern Europe. Challenging the idea of a single 'Renaissance', it assembles essays on local antiquities in Spain, Portugal, France, Britain, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland.

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