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June 2, 2009
Colum Hourihane Romanesque Art and Thought in the Twelfth Century: Essays in Honor of Walter Cahn University Park and Princeton: Pennsylvania State University Press in association with Index of Christian Art, Princeton University, 2008. 368 pp.; 216 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (9780976820277)
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The fifteen papers collected in this book were presented at a conference in honor of Walter Cahn at the Index of Christian Art, Princeton, in 2007. As Colum Hourihane notes in his introduction, the term “Romanesque” is fraught with difficulties, and one of the themes that runs through many of the papers is a questioning of just what constitutes Romanesque style. As is usually the case with collections of this kind, however, there is no...