Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One Medievalism in Nineteenth-Century Historiography -- National Origin Narratives in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy -- The Uses and Abuses of the Barbarian Invasions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Oehlenschlaeger and Ibsen: National Revival in Drama and History in Denmark and Norway c. 1800-1860 -- Romantic Historiography as a Sociology of Liberty: Joachim Lelewel and His Contemporaries -- Part Two Medievalism in Nineteenth-Century Architecture -- The Roots of Medievalism in North-West Europe: National Romanticism, Architecture, Literature -- Medieval and Neo-Medieval Buildings in Scandinavia -- Restoration as an Expression of Art History in Nineteenth-Century Hungary -- Digging Out the Past to Build Up the Future: Romanian Architecture in the Balkan Context 1859-1906 -- Ottoman Gothic: Evocations of the Medieval Past in Late Ottoman Architecture -- Medievalism and Modernity: Architectural Appropriations of the Middle Ages in Germany (1890-1920) -- Part Three Medievalism in Nineteenth-Century Philology -- A Cross-Country Foxhunt: Claiming Reynard for the National Literatures of Nineteenth-Century Europe -- Restoration from Notre-Dame de Paris to Gaston Paris -- The Czech Linguistic Turn: Origins of Modern Czech Philology 1780-1880 -- Part Four Medievalism and its Alternatives in National Discourses -- 'Medieval' Identities in Italy: National, Regional, Local -- Between Slavs and Old Bulgars: 'Ancestors', 'Race' and Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century Bulgaria -- With Brotherly Love: The Czech Beginnings of Medieval Archaeology in Bulgaria and Ukraine -- The Study of the Archaeological Finds of the Tenth-Century Carpathian Basin as National Archaeology: Early Nineteenth-Century Views -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Proper Names.