Verschaffel Tom
Biographic Data
| ID | 6545931 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Verschaffel Tom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Verschaffel |
| FAMILY NAME | Tom |
| SIGNATURE | TOM V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of History, KULeuven Leuven, Belgium |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6973-9952 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Story of Victimhood and Sacrifice
Both in nineteenth-century Hungary and in Belgium, historians legitimizing the nation implied the people’s lack of freedom and suffering as a main theme in their narratives. The ‘myth of foreign occupations’ is crucial in their national narrative, as it was developed starting from the late eighteenth century, and with greater strength after the establishment of Belgium as an independent state in 1830. This implies that since the submission by the…
Cultural transfer and literary culture in eighteenth-century Brussels. French journalists as cultural mediators
The eighteenth-century Southern Low Countries have long been considered a no man’s land, as a result of the continuous import of exotic flavors and foreign texts. But is a no man’s land also a wasteland? What if we looked at it differently and started focusing on the literary culture that was slowly taking shape, already during this long-neglected period, through cultural transfer and translation? This article focuses on the cultural agency and d…
Group portraits with national heroes
After the Revolution of 1830, the new Belgian nation‐state was in a patriotic mood. It celebrated its national glory in pantheons: imaginary temples in which the heroes from the national past were represented and accumulated. These pantheons were almost omnipresent in the public spaces of the kingdom. They familiarised the Belgians with their heroic ‘forefathers’ and with their legacy. The meaning and message of the pantheons were easily accessib…
Group portraits with national heroes
After the Revolution of 1830, the new Belgian nation‐state was in a patriotic mood. It celebrated its national glory in pantheons: imaginary temples in which the heroes from the national past were represented and accumulated. These pantheons were almost omnipresent in the public spaces of the kingdom. They familiarised the Belgians with their heroic ‘forefathers’ and with their legacy. The meaning and message of the pantheons were easily accessib…
Group portraits with national heroes
After the Revolution of 1830, the new Belgian nation‐state was in a patriotic mood. It celebrated its national glory in pantheons: imaginary temples in which the heroes from the national past were represented and accumulated. These pantheons were almost omnipresent in the public spaces of the kingdom. They familiarised the Belgians with their heroic ‘forefathers’ and with their legacy. The meaning and message of the pantheons were easily accessib…
Cultural transfer and literary culture in eighteenth-century Brussels. French journalists as cultural mediators
The eighteenth-century Southern Low Countries have long been considered a no man’s land, as a result of the continuous import of exotic flavors and foreign texts. But is a no man’s land also a wasteland? What if we looked at it differently and started focusing on the literary culture that was slowly taking shape, already during this long-neglected period, through cultural transfer and translation? This article focuses on the cultural agency and d…
A Story of Victimhood and Sacrifice
Both in nineteenth-century Hungary and in Belgium, historians legitimizing the nation implied the people’s lack of freedom and suffering as a main theme in their narratives. The ‘myth of foreign occupations’ is crucial in their national narrative, as it was developed starting from the late eighteenth century, and with greater strength after the establishment of Belgium as an independent state in 1830. This implies that since the submission by the…
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