Table of Contents

Introduction

• Research Questions and Perspectives
• Between Heritage Studies and Antiquarianism
• The Scope and Content of the Book

Chapter 1. Heritage and Cultural Memory

• Regimes of Historicity
• The Cult of Monuments

Chapter 2. In Search of Ancient Heroes

• Topographies and the Space of Experience
• What’s in a Name?
• The Implications of Space
• Hallingdal and Thrace
• A Familiar Realm

Chapter 3. Antiquarianism and Epistemic Virtue

• Facts from Stones
• From Mortar to Grammar
• Epistemic Virtues
• Schøning, the Historian

Chapter 4. Ruins and Time

• Rudera: Decay, Vestiges and Remains
• Ruin Romanticism
• Sensibility and National Glory

Chapter 5. Mediaeval Monuments

• The Discovery of the Stave Churches
• Material Evidence – a New Approach
• J.S. Dahl and the Society for the Preservation of Norwegian Ancient Monuments
• History and the Nation
• A Change of Regimes?

Chapter 6. Museums to Preserve Our Past

• Systems, Specimens and Antiquities
• National Awakening
• Between Temporality and Topography
• Conflicts and Invisibilities
• Museums and History

Chapter 7. Monuments and Memorials

• From Royal Glory to Civic Virtue
• Standing Stones and Universal Values
• All of Us – Resistance as a Collective Project
• Time Witnesses
• At the Museum

Chapter 8. Cultural Property, Cultural Heritage

• Bring Him Home!
• From Property to Heritage
• Unique, but Not Particular

Chapter 9. Heritage Today

• Cultural Heritage in the Age of Digitalisation – Heritage Year 2009
• The Heritage of Everyday Life
• Doing Heritage
• From Change to Choice – by Way of a Conclusion

References
Index