Penn State Live - Book wins Henry-Russell Hitchcock Award for 2005

Book wins Henry-Russell Hitchcock Award for 2005

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

"The Romanesque Revival: Religion, Politics and Transnational Exchange," by Kathleen Curran, is the recipient of the Henry-Russell Hitchcock Book Award for 2005. The award was presented by The Victorian Society in America for the book which the society considers to have made the most significant contribution to 19th-century studies in the previous year. Drawing on extensive archival research and wide reading in the theological and political literature of the period, Curran sets Romanesque Revival architecture in the context of debates on the roles church and state should and could play in modern society. Her book also breaks new ground by bringing to the fore the figures -- diplomats, theologians, educational reformers, clergymen and rulers -- who supported Romanesque Revival architecture in large part because of the style's many associations with the staunch faith and communal solidarity of the early Christian era. For more information on this title go to http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-02215-9.html

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