The Matica and Beyond

Cultural Associations and Nationalism in Europe
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42374-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 708 g

Reihe: National Cultivation of Culture

Nineteenth-century national movements perceived the nation as a community defined by language, culture and history. Part of the infrastructure to spread this view of the nation were institutions publishing literary and scientific texts in the national language. Starting with the Matica srpska (Pest, 1826), a particular kind of society was established in several parts of the Habsburg Empire – inspiring each other, but with often major differences in activities, membership and financing. Outside of the Slavic world analogues institutions played a similar key role in the early stages of national revival in Europe. The Matica and Beyond is the first concerted attempt to comparatively investigate both the specificity and commonality of these cultural associations, bringing together cases from differing regional, political and social circumstances.

Contributors are: Daniel Baric, Benjamin Bossaert, Marijan Dovic, Liljana Gushevska, Jörg Hackmann, Roisín Higgins, Alfonso Iglesias Amorín, Dagmar Krocanová, Joep Leerssen, Marion Löffler, Philippe Martel, Alexei Miller, Xosé M. Núñez Seixas, Iryna Orlevych, Magdaléna Pokorná, Miloš Rezník, Jan Rock, Diliara M. Usmanova, and Zsuzsanna Varga.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lajosi, Krisztina

Stynen, Andreas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Joep Leerssen

1 The Buda University Press and National Awakenings in Habsburg Austria

Zsuzsanna Varga

2 The Matice Ceská

Magdaléna Pokorná

3 The Slovak Matica, Its Precursors and Its Legacy

Benjamin Bossaert and Dagmar Krocanová

4 The Matica in an Ethnic-Regional Context: Sorbian Lusatia and Czech Silesia in Comparison

Miloš Rezník

5 The Slovenian Matica: The ‘Foundation-Stone’

Marijan Dovic

6 Framing a Regional Matica, from Dalmatian to Croatian

Daniel Baric

7 Macedonian Societies in the Balkan Context

Liljana Gushevska

8 Language, Cultural Associations, and the Origins of Galician Nationalism, 1840–1918

Xosé M. Núñez Seixas and Alfonso Iglesias Amorín

9 Félibrige, or the Impossible Occitan Nation

Philippe Martel

10 Educational, Scholarly, and Literary Societies in Dutch-speaking Regions, 1766–1886

Jan Rock

11 A Century of Change: The Eisteddfod and Welsh Cultural Nationalism

Marion Löffler

12 “Racy of the Soil”: Young Ireland and the Cultural Production of Nationhood

Roisín Higgins

13 Competing National Movements: School Associations and Cultural Nationalism in the Baltic Region

Jörg Hackmann

14 The Galician-Ruthenian Matica (1848–1939)

Iryna Orlevych

15 Tatar Cultural and Educational Organizations and Charities: Muslim Self-Organization in the Russian Empire

Diliara M. Usmanova

Afterword: The Maticas in a World of Empires

Alexei Miller

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Krisztina Lajosi is a Senior Lecturer in Modern European Culture at the Department of European Studies of the Universiteit van Amsterdam. Her research area is nationalism and transnationalism studies, focusing on the intersections between history, media and political thought.

Dr. Andreas Stynen is postdoctoral assistant at KU Leuven, Research Group for Cultural History since 1750. Mainly studying the history of urbanism and national movements, he has also published on musical culture, transatlantic migration and practices of remembrance.