A Medievalist’’s Gaze: Christian Visual Rhetoric in Modern German Memorials (1950-2000)

This study offers an unconventional reading of modern and postmodern German memorials from a medievalist perspective. Including but not limited to memorials for the victims of the Nazis in Germany, the book offers a medieval prism through which to view these works of art and understand their contribution to German memory culture.

Galit Noga-Banai is Professor of Art History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she lectures and writes on early Christian and medieval art. She is the author of The Trophies of the Martyrs: An Art Historical Study of Early Christian Silver Reliquaries (Oxford University Press, 2008), and Sacred Stimulus: Jerusalem in the Visual Christianization of Rome (Oxford University Press, 2018). In recent years she has also become interested in modern and contemporary medievalism.