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Title The Castles of the Rhine : Recreating the Middle Ages in Modern Germany
Published Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006

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Description 1 online resource (407 pages)
Contents List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS; 1. Political and Economic Power on the Middle Rhine; 2. Romanticism and Nationalism on the Middle Rhine; 3. Monuments and Documents on the Middle Rhine; PART TWO: VINDICATING THE OLD REGIME; 4. The Holy Alliance in Stone; 5. Hohenzollern Dreams; 6. King of the Rhineland; 7. The Hohenzollerns at the Hunt; 8. The ""Cartridge Prince"" and His Consort; PART THREE: BUTTRESSING THE STATUS QUO; 9. A Justification of Aristocratic Privilege; 10. The Fulfilment of Bourgeois Ambition
PART FOUR: DEFENDING THE REICH11. Symbols of German Unity; 12. Monument to German Glory; PART FIVE: SECURING THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE; 13. To Entertain, Enlighten, and Exploit the Traveller; 14. To Study the German Past; 15. To Teach the Young and the Ignorant; PART SIX: CONCLUSION; 16. ""Can Stones Speak?""; APPENDICES; 1. Glossary of Architectural Terms Used; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; K; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; W; Z; 2. Medieval Fantasies; 3. Hohenzollern Castle Projects Outside the Rhineland; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
Subject Castles -- Reconstruction -- Germany -- Rhineland
Nationalism and architecture -- Germany -- Rhineland
HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
Castles -- Reconstruction
Nationalism and architecture
Germany -- Rhineland
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781554588015
1554588014