Fragments: medieval makers, modern responses

Abstract

"A collection of essays examining how medieval visual culture can be studied through fragments. Explores how incomplete objects are interpreted, reconstructed, or reimagined in both medieval and modern contexts, highlighting the challenges and insights that arise from working with partial remains of the past"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

"These fragments I have shored against my ruins" : medieval art and architecture as a source of redemption in post-World War II Cologne / William Diebold -- Fragments of the arch of the Argentarii and the early medieval diaconia of San Giorgio in Velabro in Rome / Gregor Kalas -- Fragmented and recomposed : ivories and jewelry reused on precious book covers / Susanne Wittekind -- On fragments, restoration, frauds, and forgeries : some observations on a creatively restored Romanesque cross and its counterfeit copy / Silvia Gianolio -- The knotted philology of the Quedlinburg carpet fragments / Shirin Fozi -- Fragments of paradise : Ottoman wall paintings in the fifteenth century / Patricia Blessing -- Fragments of what? Epitaphioi and the Byzantine tradition in pieces / Henry David Schilb.