Table Of ContentCompanion
to European
Heritage Revivals /
Companion
to European
Heritage Revivals /
edited by
Linde Egberts and
Koos Bosma
Companion
to European
Heritage Revivals /
edited by
Linde Egberts and
Koos Bosma
Linde Egberts and Koos Bosma (eds.)
CLUE research institute
VU University Amsterdam
The Netherlands
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
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Preface
This book owes its existence to a long-term European project
called Cradles of European Culture (CEC) that was developed
within the framework of the Culture 2007 – 2013 program
in 2010. The project drew upon both scientific research and
public outreach in order to answer a specific question: how
can heritage – in this case early medieval heritage – play a
vibrant role in creating public enthusiasm for the past and in
motivating people to become further acquainted with the cul-
tural-historical foundations of their daily life. This concern is
one that is shared at the highest administrative levels, as is
evident from reading the Council of Europe’s Framework on the
Value of Cultural Heritage for Society (FARO Convention - 2005)
and the ICOMOS Charter for the Interpretation and Presenta-
tion of Cultural Heritage Sites (ICOMOS Ename Charter - 2008).
From their own specific points of view, both emphasize the
importance of involving the community in understanding its
past and participating in commemorations of past events.
It is no secret that it can take quite a long time for inter-
national heritage guidelines to be generally accepted and
effectively implemented, and this is precisely the reason to
welcome the publication of this book, which was planned
within the CEC project and is appropriately titled Companion
to European Heritage Revivals. It supplies the basic knowledge
relevant to any effort meant to engage a broad public in the
past and to enable people to experience their heritage in a
more conscious way. Such initiatives, in which an organisation
and its public work together to create meaningful experiences
of the past, have been called heritage revivals. In the book,
concrete cases are analysed in the course of discussions of im-
portant themes such as authenticity and heritage experience,
and building bridges between experts and a wide audience.
The basic elements needed for the development of key con-
cepts are combined with practical applications and presented
in a lively and engaging fashion.
The book is not pedantic and does not hesitate to consider
topics like the importance of commercial expertise, respect
for the expectations of the public, and the opportunities the
digital world provides for making it easier to get a sense of how
life was lived in the past, to make it more “experienceable”.
It offers concepts useful for turning heritage revivals into un-
dertakings that enlarge the public’s historical understanding
and strengthen the social basis for heritage. And these, after
all, are the ultimate goals of the FARO Convention and the
ICOMOS Ename Charter.
I wish to thank the editors, Linde Egberts, MA and Prof.
Dr. Koos Bosma, and the authors for this splendid achieve-
ment. And I hope the book will enjoy the enthusiastic reception
it deserves and have a broad impact.
Dirk Callebaut
Scientific coordinator for Cradles of European Culture
Index
Part 1 /
The Context:
Heritage Practices
in Today’s Europe
011 Chapter 1 / Experiencing the Past / Introduction
to experience, strategies, authenticity and branding /
Linde Egberts
031 Chapter 2 / Creating a Shared Past? / Europe and
the Frankish heritage in one of its heartlands: Alsace /
Linde Egberts
053 Chapter 3 / Battlefield of Histories / Competition
over authenticity and heritage in an urban region
in eastern Netherlands / Linde Egberts
Part 2 /
Revival Tools
073 Chapter 4 / Strategies for a Heritage Revival
in the Digital Age / Jasper Visser
095 Chapter 5 / Using Games to Mediate History /
Connie Veugen
113 Chapter 6 / “This Is Clearly Bullshit” / Some views
about history on television / Mijke Pol
131 Chapter 7 / Lost Cities, Exotic Travel and
Digging up the World / Historical feature films
as a means of enhancing appreciation of our
archaeological heritage / Nina Schücker and
Jan van Helt
151 Chapter 8 / When the Past Comes to Life /
Historical reenactment / Peter Van der Plaetsen
169 Chapter 9 / Visualisation of Place and
Landscape / Joske Houtkamp, Arnoud de Boer and
Henk Kramer
189 Chapter 10 / From Preservation to Managing
Change / Using spatial development as a heritage
revival tool / Felix van Veldhoven
207 Chapter 11 / “Europe is a Journey” / The European
cultural route as an instrument for heritage revival /
Minke Walda
Part 3 /
Concepts
271 Chapter 12 / Conceptual Fuel for Reviving
the Past / Creating a heritage revival in today’s
Europe / Linde Egberts
293 Notes
320 Bibliographies
341 Illustrations
343 About the Contributors
Part 1 /
The Context:
Heritage Practices
in Today’s Europe
