Connecting object histories, the anthropology of images, and historiography, they seek to understand how people have made sense of the past by examining objects, images, and architectural and urban spaces. The contributors to this volume are confronted with the full expanse of what they cannot see, handle, or know. This concise volume addresses the problems inherent in studying medieval works of art, artifacts, and monuments that have disappeared, have been destroyed, or perhaps never existed in the first place.
Absent the object, art historians must stretch their methods to, or even past, the breaking point.
To write about works that cannot be sensually perceived involves considerable strain. Destroyed-Disappeared-Lost-Never Were book launch
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