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Bilder von Überresten
Eine visuelle Gedächtnisgeschichte des Mittelalters im Frankreich der Neuzeit und Moderne
Only vestiges of the Middle Ages remain. They embody a period that has been assigned a wide range of historical, political and cultural meanings in modern and contemporary times. In addition to texts, images have also contributed to this. Material relics from sword pommels to cathedrals are presented to us in visual representations of printmaking, photography or book illustration. Through the transformation processes of targeted artistic appropriation and media transfer, not only the remains themselves take shape, but also the ways of seeing and understanding the past. The book traces this connection using the example of France, from the graphic arts of the late sixteenth century to the computer simulation of the early twenty-first century. It sketches a visual history of memory of the Middle Ages at the intersection of art history and history.
