Noblewomen, Memory, and the Invention of a Fictitious Past

Lynn Lubamersky

Noblewomen, Memory, and the Invention of a Fictitious Past

Lynn Lubamersky

History Department

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<div class="line" id="line-13"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Historians today would call family origin myths like the Radziwi&lstrok;&lstrok; family’s origin myth fictitious or a fabrication, but families put a great deal of effort and expense into patronizing artists, architects, authors, printers, and others to create the trappings of noble grandeur to build and sustain a noble family’s reputation in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the XVIIIth century. Noblewomen were often the ones who were responsible for organizing not just the pomp and circumstance of banquets, funerals, weddings, and other large gatherings, but also for commissioning genealogies and writing memoirs, which should be grand, delightful, entertaining, and heavily laden with Baroque ornamentation which would disgust XVIIIth and XIXth century “scientific” historians, who had different conceptions of “realism” and “fact.” </span></div>

Original language	American English
State	Published - 20 Nov 2015
Event	Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies 47th Annual Convention - Philadelphia, PA Duration: 20 Nov 2015 → …

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Conference	Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies 47th Annual Convention
Period	20/11/15 → …

EGS Disciplines

Modern Languages
Slavic Languages and Societies

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Noblewomen, Memory, and the Invention of a Fictitious Past

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