Gothicism and Early Modern Historical Ethnography

"8 All of these conflicting sources allowed a variety of historical visions - and thus opportunities for exploitation by court historians - while citing ancient authority.\n This was to have been published in a rich edition with a large number of engravings, but was never finished.58 Although in this dream of a supra-national Gothic union, the focus was on Sweden and Spain, rather than Germany, Saavedra Fajardo's book treats Spain and Austria equally. [...]antiquarians elsewhere, but primarily in the Germanic lands, rejected this narrow, extremely politicized vision of Gothicism and pointed instead to a much broader Gothic tradition, though this was frequently tailored to their own ends.