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The Castles of the Rhine: Recreating the Middle Ages in Modern Germany
Robert R. Taylor
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Paperback. Taylor begins with a synopsis of the major political, social and intellectual changes that influenced castle building in the 19th century, and then focuses on selected ones, describing their histories from origin through to today's continued preservation. Num Pages: 407 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; HBG; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 552.
Far from being mere antiquarian or sentimental curiosities, the rebuilt or reused fortresses of the Rhine reflect major changes in Germany and Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Taylor begins The Castles of the Rhine with a synopsis of the major political, social and intellectual changes that influenced castle rebuilding in the nineteenth century. He then focuses on selected castles, describing their turbulent histories from the time of their original construction, through their destruction or decay, to their rediscovery in the 1800s and their continued preservation today.
Far from being mere antiquarian or sentimental curiosities, the rebuilt or reused fortresses of the Rhine reflect major changes in Germany and Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Taylor begins The Castles of the Rhine with a synopsis of the major political, social and intellectual changes that influenced castle rebuilding in the nineteenth century. He then focuses on selected castles, describing their turbulent histories from the time of their original construction, through their destruction or decay, to their rediscovery in the 1800s and their continued preservation today.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
407
Place of Publication
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
ISBN
9780889203150
SKU
V9780889203150
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99-15
About Robert R. Taylor
Robert R. Taylor is a professor of history at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, where he has been active in the architecture conservation movement. He is the author of The Word in Stone: The Role of Architecture in the National Socialist Ideology and Hohenzollern Berlin: Construction and Reconstruction.
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``[W]hen studying the great German river [the Rhine], one can escape neither poetry nor politics. The need to assert and defend political power created the original Rhenish castles [and] ... much later ... when these fortresses had fallen into ruin and lost all apparent political or military value, nineteenth-century poets were enraptured by the landscape and mythology of both the ... Read more