The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe by Geary, Patrick J.
The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe by Geary, Patrick J.

The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe

Modern-day Europeans by the millions proudly trace back their national identities to the Celts, Franks, Gauls, Goths,...
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The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe by Geary, Patrick J.

The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe

Dhs. 227.89
The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe by Geary, Patrick J.

The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe

Dhs. 227.89
Author: Patrick J. Geary
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Modern-day Europeans by the millions proudly trace back their national identities to the Celts, Franks, Gauls, Goths, Huns, or Serbs--or some combination of the various peoples who inhabited, traversed, or pillaged their continent more than a thousand years ago. According to Patrick Geary, this is historical nonsense. The idea that national character is fixed for all time in a simpler, distant past is groundless, he argues in this unflinching reconsideration of European nationhood. Few of the peoples that many Europeans honor as sharing their sense of ''nation'' had comparably homogeneous identities; even the Huns, he points out, were firmly united only under Attila's ten-year reign.

Geary dismantles the nationalist myths about how the nations of Europe were born. Through rigorous analysis set in lucid prose, he contrasts the myths with the actual history of Europe's transformation between the fourth and ninth centuries--the period of grand migrations that nationalists hold dear. The nationalist sentiments today increasingly taken for granted in Europe emerged, he argues, only in the nineteenth century. Ironically, this phenomenon was kept alive not just by responsive populations--but by complicit scholars.

Ultimately, Geary concludes, the actual formation of European peoples must be seen as an extended process that began in antiquity and continues in the present. The resulting image is a challenge to those who anchor contemporary antagonisms in ancient myths--to those who claim that immigration and tolerance toward minorities despoil ''nationhood.'' As Geary shows, such ideologues--whether Le Pens who champion ''the French people born with the baptism of Clovis in 496'' or Milosevics who cite early Serbian history to claim rebellious regions--know their myths but not their history.

The Myth of Nations will be intensely debated by all who understood that a history that does not change, that reduces the complexities of many centuries to a single, eternal moment, isn't history at all.

Author: Patrick J. Geary
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 02/02/2003
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.56w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9780691114811

About the Author
Patrick J. Geary is Professor of History at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is the author of Phantoms of Remembrance: Memory and Oblivion at the End of the first Millennium (Princeton), Living with the Dead in the Middle Ages, and Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages (Princeton).
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