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Explores the view of the past, from Saxon times to the present day, from British Isles to modern-day China - how the Middle Ages populated ancient sites with dragons and elves; how people responded to the historic landscape many centuries ago; and, how the landscapes and buildings of the past came to be interpreted and codified by antiquarians.
List of contents
Preface Introduction: Enchantment, Disenchantment Re-enchantment 1. Dragons, Elves and Giants: Some Pre-archaeological Occupants of British Barrows (Jeremy Harte) 2. Recycling the Past: Ancient Monuments and Changing Meanings in Early Medieval Britain (Sarah Semple) 3.'A Small Journey into the Country': William Stukeley and the Formal Landscapes of Avebury and Stonehenge (David Boyd Haycock) 4. Thomas Rickman's Handbook of Gothic Architecture and the Taxonomic Classification of the Past (Megan Aldrich) 5. Antiquarianism and the Creation of Place: the Birth of Japanese Archaeology (Simon Kaner) 6. Recording the Past: the Origins and Aims of the Church Monuments Society (Simon Watney) 7. Modern Antiquarians? Pagans, 'Sacred Sites', Respect and Reburial (Robert J. Wallis) 8. Continuity and Revival in Modern Chinese Culture: the Woodblock Prints of Wang Chao (Anne Farrer) Afterword (Alex Seago)
