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Central to many medieval ritual traditions both sacred and secular, the Gothic cathedral holds a privileged place within the European cultural imagination and experience. Due to the burgeoning historical interest in the medieval past, in connection with the medieval revival in literature, visual arts, and architecture that began in the late seventeenth century and culminated in the nineteenth, the Gothic cathedral took centre stage in numerous ideological discourses. These discourses imposed contemporary political and aesthetic connotations upon the cathedral that were often far removed from its original meaning and ritual use. This volume presents interdisciplinary perspectives on the resignification of the Gothic cathedral in the post-medieval period. Its contributors, literary scholars and historians of art and architecture, investigate the dynamics of national and cultural movements that turned Gothic cathedrals into symbols of the modern nation-state, highlight the political uses of the edifice in literature and the arts, and underscore the importance of subjectivity in literary and visual representations of Gothic architecture. Contributing to scholarship in historiography, cultural history, intermedial and interdisciplinary studies, as well as traditional disciplines, the volume resonates with wider perspectives, especially relating to the reuse of artefacts to serve particular ideological ends.

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Each new historical artist or commentator presented is clearly identified with dates, and complete bibliographic references in the footnotes offer scope for further reading. A case in point is the rich documentation in Matilde Mateos Moorish-Gothic Cathedral, which allows the reader to pursue the fascinating historiography of the much-debated Islamic roots of Gothic architecture. . . Authors throughout the volume draw nimbly upon a range of materials--visual and otherwise--to make their case, and the strongest essays focus in on their particular topic without being constrained by any one method, field, or discipline. --Pastan, Elizabeth Carson, Emory University, The Medieval Review, 1/4/2020 . . . one has to love a publisher who still allows footnotes at the bottom of the page and full texts of original quotes followed immediately by translations. The luxury of such older standards is a reminder to other presses that austerity measures have often made consumption of their books into fraught experiences. --Marquardt, Janet T., Eastern Illinois University, Emerita, and Mount Holyoke College, Research Associate

. . . one has to love a publisher who still allows footnotes at the bottom of the page and full texts of original quotes followed immediately by translations. The luxury of such older standards is a reminder to other presses that austerity measures have often made consumption of their books into fraught experiences. --Marquardt, Janet T., Eastern Illinois University, Emerita, and Mount Holyoke College, Research Associate

""Each new historical artist or commentator presented is clearly identified with dates, and complete bibliographic references in the footnotes offer scope for further reading. A case in point is the rich documentation in Matilde Mateos Moorish-Gothic Cathedral, which allows the reader to pursue the fascinating historiography of the much-debated Islamic roots of Gothic architecture. . . Authors throughout the volume draw nimbly upon a range of materials--visual and otherwise--to make their case, and the strongest essays focus in on their particular topic without being constrained by any one method, field, or discipline."" --Pastan, Elizabeth Carson, Emory University, The Medieval Review, 1/4/2020 "". . . one has to love a publisher who still allows footnotes at the bottom of the page and full texts of original quotes followed immediately by translations. The luxury of such older standards is a reminder to other presses that austerity measures have often made consumption of their books into fraught experiences."" --Marquardt, Janet T., Eastern Illinois University, Emerita, and Mount Holyoke College, Research Associate

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