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Heritage or Heresy
Preservation and Destruction of Religious Art and Architecture in Europe
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Heritage or Heresy
Preservation and Destruction of Religious Art and Architecture in Europe
About this book
This is an account of the roles of local and national movements, and of memory and regret in the destruction or preservation of the architectural, artistic, and historic legacy of Europe in which the author examines what is cultural heritage and why it matters.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Introduction: Destruction and Preservation: Continuities and Discontinuities
- 1 Destruction: Idolatry
- 2 Destruction: Iconoclasm and the Reformation in Northern Europe
- 3 In Defense of Images: Christian Church and Religious “Art”
- 4 From Local Culture to World Heritage: Córdoba’s Mosque/Cathedral
- 5 York Minster: From Local to National Preservation
- 6 Making the French Nation: Liberating France, Abbé Grégoire, and the Patrimony of the Middle Ages
- 7 Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame of Paris
- 8 The Turn to National Heritage: Nineteenth-Century Europe and Restoration
- Conclusion: Memory, Regret, and History: What Is Cultural Heritage and Why Does It Matter?
- Notes
- List of Terms
- Bibliography
- Index
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