Sophie Bonding, "Mythology and Nation Building: N.f.s. Grundtvig and His European Contemporaries"
English | ISBN: 8771846263 | 2021 | 220 pages | PDF | 8 MB
English | ISBN: 8771846263 | 2021 | 220 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This interdisciplinary anthology offers new perspectives on the role of pre-Christian mythologies in the formation of national communities in 19th Century Europe. Through a combination of theoretical articles and case studies, it provides new understandings of how intellectual and cultural thinkers across Europe utilised pre-Christian mythologies as a resource for forging their respective national communities.