2013年5月8日 星期三

2013.4.17(週三)馮翰士老師主講:A History without a Country? Reflections from the Borderland(含活動照片)




主講人:馮翰士 老師(Henk Vynckier)
(東海大學外文系副教授兼系主任)

● 主持人:花亦芬 老師(臺大歷史系教授)


● 時 間:2013年4月17日(週三)下午3:30-5:20


● 地 點:臺大博雅教學館303教室


● 主辦單位:臺大歷史學系、臺大邁向頂尖大學計畫「人文多樣性與跨文化」子計畫:歐洲史上的文化與宗教多元性。



● 演講摘要:

   In a recent bestselling history entitled Belgium: a History without a Country, published in 2012, the Belgian historian Rolf Falter argues that Belgium, while having a rich history spanning back many centuries, only became a true country in the political sense of the word rather recently. Thus, unlike some other, more recent countries which may be called “countries without a history” as they are young and not characterized by a very long history, Belgium, which was fought over time and again by all the major European powers since the early Middle Ages, is in some ways a history without a country. In other words, it is a complex network of intersecting historical narratives which, while culturally fascinating, only very belatedly resulted in a modern national identity.


   The purpose of this talk is to examine this argument on the basis of some cases studies of a number of major cities whose origins can be traced back to the Flanders of the Middle Ages: Courtray, Bruges, Ypres, Lille (Rijsel) and Tournai (Doornik). The main focus will be surviving examples of the architecture, painting and religious institutions of these cities in the oft contested borderland between France and Belgium.


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