... by the Penal laws and the break in church-building, drawing on the grand cathedrals of Europe as well as medieval ruins in the Irish landscape. Most published descriptions of new Roman Catholic churches identified the key aesthetic quality of ‘magnificence’, particularly in reference to scale and position...

...This chapter examines the Topography of Terror, an open-air exhibition and documentation center at the heart of Berlin where archaeological excavations of Gestapo structures once mingled with postwar ruins and debris. The site began as a temporary, guerrilla exhibition, and its helter-skelter...

...This chapter tests the concept of counterpreservation against two ruins of a more recent past: structures built by the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and called into question after unification. One of them, the now-demolished Palace of the Republic, exemplifies counterpreservation in a different...

...Beginning with the rise and fall narratives that dominate ancient and contemporary imaginations, this chapter reads ruins as a material social agent—as vital actors in social life—and as signs and symptoms of processes of imperial ruination. It uses the representation of Babylon in ancient Jewish...

... of the religious centres of power in the Middle Ages (Neath Abbey, St David’s Cathedral), and their status as ruins and memorials in Welsh landscapes of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It considers the modern ‘pilgrimage’ of visiting such sites and examines their potential to develop new meanings...

... nor fully alive, Morel, following this scene, drifts through the streets of Nottingham much ¹ D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers (1913; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), 463. Wastepaper Modernism: Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Ruins of Print. Joseph Elkanah Rosenberg, Oxford University Press...

...The conclusion of Empire of Ruins recalls the book’s examination of ruin photography as it relates to modernity—the traumas of war and climate change. But it places that narrative within a larger context by relating this theory of American ruins to a historical conjunction between...

... Introduction Our Time in Ruins All ruins, of whatever kind, share at least one characteristic: something great or small that existed as an object in space, has changed over time, has been ruined, or has gone to ruin. The word itself comes from the Latin ru na, denoting a sudden change in form...

...Gonzalo C. Garcia and Vincent Miller, Digital Ruins In: Disentangling. Edited by: André Jansson and Paul C. Adams, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2021. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197571873.003.0008 Geography has seen a rebirth of interest...

...Socialist Laments. Martha Sprigge, Oxford University Press (2021). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197546321.003.0002 This chapter analyzes music by composers who participated in a widespread artistic preoccupation with Germany’s ruined cityscapes during and shortly...

...Scholars grapple with understanding the meaning of industrial ruins and how different stakeholders perceive the ruined landscapes. On the one hand, these industrial landscapes support a memory of the power and achievements of capitalism. On the other hand, they serve as a reminder of human...

...Anna Gasha introduces us to the afterlife of several pieces of the Urakami Cathedral ruins in the years following their removal in 1958. Gasha points out how a visitor to Nagasaki today in search of places of atomic memory finds different pieces of the Urakami Cathedral, of varying degrees...

...This chapter highlights the concerns of some groups in Nagasaki on how to treat the ruins of the atomic past. It focuses on the Urakami Cathedral ruins which loomed large in discussions of reconstruction and urban identity through the late 1950s. The chapter looks at how the ruins linked the past...

...This chapter takes a look at how ruins aged the American landscape, thereby conferring a cultural status equivalent to Europe's architectural heritage. Purpose-built ruins in the nineteenth-century United States were rare, but they did exist. Gardeners and architects indulged this desire for age...

...This chapter examines the Hannah Arendt Denkraum (2006) exhibition in Berlin that was displayed in former Jewish Girls School, which at the time was an ‘empty’ building located in former East Berlin. Through the exhibition, this building – which was violently made into a ruin under National...

... essentially as mediated through art and literature causes both thinkers anxiety and reluctance to engage with an actual experience of decay on their respective trips to Greece. In taking a physical approach to the ruins of Greece, they find their perception of reality challenged and thus reconsider, through...

... of Christian cities in the nineteenth and first part of the twentieth century were regularly sacrificed in the search for pharaonic remains of their mud-brick fabric exploited for fertilizer. Impressive remains of monastic ruins could still be seen by travelers in the mid-nineteenth century, but their modern...

...This chapter focuses on the first of Gesualdo Bufalino's four late modern variations on a neoclassical view: the Italian landscape with ruins. In Bufalino's story, a nocturnal invention representative of this Sicilian writer's “baroque” style, the relics of wrecked cars, provide the equivalent...

... affect the place of ancient ruins in the lives of Southeast Asian peoples. Rather than almost defining tourism in the region, visits to ruins will probably become a “singular” experience, a small niche in the tourist trade, and will certainly play a lesser role in the overall economy of even formerly...

...This chapter discusses the famous Ruins of St Paul. It is situated on a hill 26 metres above sea level, and possibly represents one of the most famous baroque images. It looks at the different areas of the church, from the two-dimensional façade to the relics found in the chancel. A detailed...