L'étruscologie dans l'Europe d'après-guerre

The proceedings of this conference held at Amiens and Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme follow the volumes of the conferences of 2015 and 2016 on the history of Etruscology in the 20th century within a program promoted and financed since 2011 by the Institut Universitaire de France. The goal of the program is to study how the Etruscans became an autonomous object of study during the construction of the European nations. This third volume completes the chronological route through the study of the period that followed the World War Two. A team of scholars gathered on September 14-16, 2015, and questioned if the fall of fascism in Italy and Nazism in Germany put an end to a period of crisis faced by Etruscology during World War Two and if it marked the beginning of a new period in Etruscan studies. In other words, did the political construction of Europe give a new impulse to the studies on the Etruscans, or did the etruscologists themselves search in Europe for a renewal that they could not find in their own countries? The issue was to ask to what extent the etruscologists joined these European values and how they used them as a filter in order to direct their studies. Another topic debated at the conference was the European dream of the etruscologists after the war, how it influenced the question of the origin of the Etruscans and how it made the Etruscans popular, and finally how it faced the realities of a divided Europe.