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100	1		_aHill, Rosemary _c(Historian) _eauthor. _9106893
245	1	0	_aTime's witness : _bhistory in the age of Romanticism / _cRosemary Hill.
264		1	_aLondon : _bAllen Lane, _c2021.
300			_axiii, 390 pages : _billustrations (black and white, and colour)
336			_atext _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_a"Between the fall of the Bastille in 1789 and 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. Through a period of revolution, war and civil unrest across Europe, the antiquaries strove, sometimes at real personal risk, to preserve the remains of history, including those that were at times politically and culturally unacceptable. They oversaw the birth of the modern museum, debated the rights of cultural property and wondered who could or should own the past. The Romantic age valued imagination, but it also valued facts and it brought both to the study of history. Among its achievements were the preservation of the Bayeux Tapestry, the analysis and dating of Gothic architecture, and the first publication of Beowulf. It dispelled old myths, and gave us new ones: Shakespeare's birthplace, clan tartans and the arrow in Harold's eye are among their legacies. From scholars to imposters the dozen or so pioneering antiquaries at the heart of this book, too long forgotten, gave us much of the history we live with today."-- _cTaken from book-cover.
650		0	_aRomanticism _zEurope. _9123652
650		0	_aRomanticism _zGreat Britain. _945529
651		0	_aEurope _xHistory _y1789-1900. _914820
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xHistory _y19th century. _915900
651		0	_aEurope _xIntellectual life _y19th century. _914834
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xIntellectual life _y19th century. _916166
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