What is it about?
To trace the dynamics of cultural connections, an encyclopedic approach is needed; but this requires more than a traditional listing of individual entries in alphabetical order. Instead, ERNiE has been organized as a matrix, on the twin parameters of transnational and intermedial interconnections. The main portion of ERNiE – the section entitled PATTERNS – is organized like the location grid on a city map or a chessboard (illustration 1). In a matrix-style organization, some 30 Cultural Currents are mapped against some 50 Cultural Communities, yielding an entry structure of ca. 1200 relevant headwords, e.g. ‘Basque language activism’, ‘Finnish classical music’, ‘Greek archeology’ or ‘Icelandic folklore studies’
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Why is it important?
ERNiE contains analytical articles on themes and persons, as well as historical documentation (Letters, Writings, Images, Music etc.), tracing and visualizing the transnational rise of national culture-building in 19th-century Europe.These articles and materials cover manifestations of Romantic Nationalism in Europe during the long 19th century. While European in focus, ERNiE’s coverage is as comprehensive as possible and firmly transnational: what ERNiE hopes to make visible is not only the great mass, social penetration and mobilizing agency of individual cultural actions, gestures and developments within different countries, but also their cross-national (as well as intermedial) connections and interrelations. ERNiE wishes to draw attention to culture not only as the intellectual and artistic ambitience which made nationalism, as an ideology, thinkable and attractive, but above all as the communicative medium which rendered a transnational diffusion of nationalism possible. A brochure can be viewed/downloaded here. An online user’s manual can be found here.
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This page is a summary of: Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe, March 2018, Amsterdam University Press,
DOI: 10.5117/9789462981188.
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