Ranging across different countries and cultural domains (museums, opera, literature, history-writing), this collection explores the romantic-historicist complex

Throughout Europe, nostalgia and modernization embraced around 1800: the rise of historicism coincided with the emergence of the modern nation-state. Poetical,

The 1980s and early 1990s have seen a marked increase in public interest in our historic environment. The museum and heritage industry has expanded as the past

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