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Medieval Art and Architecture after the Middle Ages explores the endurance of and nostalgia for medieval monuments through their reception in later periods, specifically illuminating the myriad ways in which tangible and imaginary artifacts of the Middle Ages have served to articulate contemporary aspirations and anxieties. The essays in this interdisciplinary collection examine the afterlife of medieval works through their preservation, restoration, appropriation, and commodification in America, Great Britain, and across Europe from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. From the evocation of metaphors and tropes, to monumental projects of restoration and recreation-medieval visual culture has had a tremendous purchase in the construction of political, religious, and cultural practices of the Modern era. The authors assembled here engage a diverse spectrum of works, from Irish ruins and a former Florentine prison to French churches and American department stores, and an equally diverse array of media ranging from architecture and manuscripts to embroidery, monumental sculpture, and metalwork. With applications not only to the study of art and architecture, but also encompassing such varied fields as commerce, city planning, education, literature, collecting and exhibition design, this copiously illustrated anthology comprises a significant contribution to the study of medieval art and medievalism.

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Janet T. Marquardt (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) is Professor of Art History and Women's Studies at Eastern Illinois University. She is lead author of Frames of Reference: Art, History, and the World (2005). Her work on medieval France includes From Martyr to Monument: The Abbey of Cluny as Cultural Patrimony (2007).Alyce A. Jordan (Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College) is Professor of Art History at Northern Arizona University. She has published articles in Gesta, Word and Image, as well as in several edited collections and is the author of Visualizing Kingship in the Windows of the Sainte-Chapelle (2002).

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