The Uses of the Middle Ages in Modern European States

An assessment of the role of the Middle Ages in national historiography and in modern conceptions of national identity, looking at relatively young nations, and regions which claim national traditions but were slow to achieve, or regain, separate statehood. Examples range from Ireland and Iceland through Austria and Italy to Finland and Greece.

BERNADETTE CUNNINGHAM Deputy Librarian, the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
DEREK FEWSTER Researcher in the Department of History, the University of Helsinki, Finland
GU?MUNDUR HÁLFDANARSON Professor of History, the University of Iceland
MICHEL MARGUE Professor of History at the University of Luxembourg
MAURO MORETTI Professor in the Department of Human Sciences, Siena Foreign University, Italy
JAN EIVIND MYHRE Professor of Modern History, the University of Oslo, Norway
JOHANNES NIEHOFF-PANAGIOTIDIS Professor of Byzantine Studies, the Free University Berlin, Germany
PIT PÉPORTÉ Researcher in the Department of History, the University of Luxembourg
ILARIA PORCIANI Professor of Contemporary History, the University of Bologna, Italy
PETER RAEDTS Professor of Medieval History, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
FRANTI EK MAHEL Vice-director, the Centre for Medieval Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences, the Czech Republic
MARKO UICA Lecturer in the Department of History, the University of Belgrade, Serbia
JO TOLLEBEEK Professor of Cultural History, the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
HERWIG WOLFRAM Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Vienna, Austria