Medievalisms with a Difference: Estonia and the Finnish Pre-War Tradition of Antiquarian Art History
Medievalisms with a Difference: Estonia and the Finnish Pre-War Tradition of Antiquarian Art History

Summary/Abstract: The character of local medievalisms has been defined in geographically limited scholarly and national contexts. This article analyses medievalism in Finnish art history before World War II concentrating on three studies by three medievalists, Karl Konrad Meinander, Ludvig Wennervirta and Juhani Rinne. In reading their texts, I focus on Estonia and Estonian scholarship in their work. Despite their national leanings, the Finns were not cut off from the international disciplinary field. For them, due to a certain lack of comparative material and research literature, the Baltic countries remained an intermediary of German influences.

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