Medieval Art, Modern Politics: A Short Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Contributors IX
5. I Introduction
6. Medieval Art, Modern Politics: A Short Introduction 1
7. II The Politics of Building and Rebuilding
8. Russian Imperialism and Byzantium (1801–2023): Architecture, Visual Culture, and Scholarship 31
9. Constructing Modern Meanings by Rebuilding Medieval Ruins: The Castles of Stolzenfels, Haut-Koenigsbourg, and Trifels in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 59
10. Recovering the Great Mosque of Córdoba: The History of an Idea 85
11. Medieval Spanish Castles: The Glory of the Past and the Construction of Race during Franco’s Regime 113
12. The Construction of a National Patrimony? Restoration of Gothic Cathedrals and Churches in the Polish People’s Republic 135
13. Notre-Dame and National Unity: From the July Monarchy to the Twenty-First Century 161
14. III The Politics of Display and Dissemination
15. Papal Political Uses of the Art of the Catacombs (Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries) 179
16. State Politics, Rural Piety, and the Complicated Afterlives of the Combefa Entombment Sculptures 197
17. Late Medieval Cypriot Tombstones in the Colonial Period: Between the Protection of Medieval Cultural Heritage and its Political Instrumentalization 221
18. A Failed Medievalism? The Burgunderbeute and Switzerland’s Search for its Cultural Heritage 245
19. Mosan Art, German Impediments: A Transnational Exhibition Network in Post–World War II Europe 269
20. Imagining Charlemagne in America 289
21. Index 313