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Tim Scott-Phd Thesis-Complete THE DISCIPLINE OF ‘GERMANIC’ ANTIQUITY AND ITS CONTEMPORARY INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIO- POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT Timothy Scott, BA (Hons), GradDipEd Department of Ancient History Macquarie University 27 March 2015 This thesis is presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy The discipline of ‘Germanic’ Antiquity and its contemporary intellectual and socio-political environment Table of Contents THE DISCIPLINE OF ‘GERMANIC’ ANTIQUITY AND ITS CONTEMPORARY INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIO- POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT ...................................................................................................................... 1 Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................. 2 List of Figures .................................................................................................................................... 8 Abstract ............................................................................................................................................... 9 Statement of Candidate ............................................................................................................... 11 Acknowledgments ........................................................................................................................ 12 Chapter 1: Introduction .............................................................................................................. 14 1 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 14 2 Rationale for study ........................................................................................................................ 21 2.1 Questioning how ‘Germanic’ Antiquity has negotiated its contemporary intellectual and socio-political environment .................................................................................................................... 22 2.2 Importance of understanding how ‘Germanic’ Antiquity has negotiated its contemporary intellectual and socio-political environment ............................................................. 25 2.2.1 Reason 1: Reflexive knowledge ................................................................................................................... 26 2.2.2 Reason 2: Epistemological vigilance ......................................................................................................... 27 3 Methodology .................................................................................................................................... 29 4 The place of Bourdieu’s Habitus, Field, Capital and Theory of Practice in this dissertation ............................................................................................................................................. 32 4.1 Habitus .......................................................................................................................................................... 32 4.2 Field ................................................................................................................................................................ 33 4.3 Capital ............................................................................................................................................................ 34 4.4 Theory of practice .................................................................................................................................... 36 2 The discipline of ‘Germanic’ Antiquity and its contemporary intellectual and socio-political environment 4.5 Challenges in using Habitus, Field, Capital and Theories of Practice ................................. 37 5 Selection of scholars to be used: von See, Geuenich, Pohl and Brather as case studies ........................................................................................................................................................ 39 5.1 Pre-eminence of the case studies in studies of the Germani .................................................. 40 5.2 A common thread: shared history and identity formation ..................................................... 43 6 Chapter Outline ............................................................................................................................... 45 7 Coda: a short comment on dates, some key terms and German translations ............ 47 Chapter 2: Defining the intellectual and socio-political environment of the scholarship that studies the ‘Germanic’ barbarian ........................................................... 49 1 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 49 2 The reappearance of Tacitus’ Germania and identifying key themes in the history of the discipline of ‘Germanic’ Antiquity ............................................................................................ 50 3 The Reformation, the politicisation of the ‘Germanic’ past and the Lutheran world view ............................................................................................................................................................ 59 4 The Enlightenment and the ‘Germanic past – liberty, language and politics ............. 64 5 Rejection of Napoleonic French Hegemony ........................................................................... 69 6 The distant ‘Germanic’ past in the context of German unification ................................ 72 7 The consequences of the Great War for the discipline of ‘Germanic’ Antiquity ........ 77 8 ‘Germanic’ Antiquity under National Socialism ................................................................... 81 9 Two Germanies and the call for interdisciplinary approaches to ethnic interpretations of the distant past ................................................................................................... 85 10 Ethnicity .......................................................................................................................................... 89 11 Conclusion ...................................................................................................................................... 94 Chapter 3: Klaus von See ............................................................................................................. 98 1 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 98 2 Von See: A brief overview ......................................................................................................... 100 3 The discipline of ‘Germanic’ Antiquity and its contemporary intellectual and socio-political environment 3 Establishing the schemata of Skandinavistik and the age of the distant ‘Germanic’ past ........................................................................................................................................................... 103 4 Recognising and articulating frameworks of conceptual opposites .......................... 106 4.1 Presenting ‘Nordic’ antiquity and its relationship with the ‘Germanic’ past ................ 107 4.2 1789 and 1914 – the shift away from Western intellectual traditions ........................... 111 5 National identity, National Socialism and the ‘Germanic’ past ..................................... 113 5.1 ‘Germanic’ Antiquity and ‘historical exceptionalism’ ............................................................. 115 5.2 The interaction between academia and National Socialism ................................................ 118 6 On the ideas that prompted, supported and survived National Socialism ............... 121 6.1 Entrenching the ‘Germanic’ past in German national identity ........................................... 122 6.2 Academia and politics: von See’s treatment of Hermann Schneider ............................... 124 6.3 Idealisation of homelands and heroes ........................................................................................... 126 7 Conclusion ...................................................................................................................................... 127 Chapter 4: Dieter Geuenich ..................................................................................................... 134 1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 134 2 Geuenich: A Brief Overview ...................................................................................................... 136 2.1 Karl Schmid, Bruno Boesch and Rudolf Schützeichel ............................................................. 138 2.2 Impact of Schmid, Boesch and Schützeichel on Geuenich’s work ..................................... 141 2.3 Geuenich and interdisciplinary approaches ............................................................................... 142 3 Collaboration towards interdisciplinary approaches ..................................................... 144 3.1 Onomastics ................................................................................................................................................ 145 3.2 Developing a database for the study of medieval individuals and groups .................... 146 4 Interdisciplinarity from a historical viewpoint
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