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The concept of the medieval city is fixed in the modern
imagination, conjuring visions of fortified walls, towering
churches, and winding streets. In Riemenschneider in Rothenburg,
Katherine M. Boivin investigates how medieval urban planning and
artistic programming worked together to form dynamic environments,
demonstrating the agency of objects, styles, and spaces in mapping
the late medieval city. Using altarpieces by the famed medieval
artist Tilman Riemenschneider as touchstones for her argument,
Boivin explores how artwork in Germany’s preeminent medieval
city, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, deliberately propagated civic
ideals. She argues that the numerous artistic pieces commissioned
by the city’s elected council over the course of two centuries
built upon one another, creating a cohesive structural network that
attracted religious pilgrims and furthered the theological ideals
of the parish church. By contextualizing some of Rothenburg’s
most significant architectural and artistic works, such as St.
James’s Church and Riemenschneider’s Altarpiece of the Holy
Blood, Boivin shows how the city government employed these works to
establish a local aesthetic that awed visitors, raising
Rothenburg’s profile and putting it on the pilgrimage map of
Europe. Carefully documented and convincingly argued, this book
sheds important new light on the history of one of Germany’s
major tourist destinations. It will be of considerable interest to
medieval art historians and scholars working in the fields of
cultural and urban history.
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