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Památky v pohybu: jak si Amerika kupuje středověk
Monuments in motion: how America is buying the Middle Ages
Event by: Centrum raně středověkých studií
Location: Koleje Veveří, Veveří 471, Brno-střed
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We cordially invite you to the next lecture from JinaX's Middle Ages series entitled "Monuments in motion: how America is buying the Middle Ages". Jana Černocká reflects on the ways in which the medieval past is used by American elites. Is it a romantic dream come to life or a tool for promoting the values of a capitalist society?
In 1913, the small town of Cuxa in the foothills of the Pyrenees experiences an unusual sight: the monastery of Saint Michael, its dilapidated, abandoned, robbed, but still standing pride is partly dismantled into pieces and taken away somewhere. Twenty years later, its fragments – these were mostly decorated capitals from the cloister cloister – are part of the collections of The Cloisters, one of the most famous museums in New York. The patron of this building, which looks like a medieval monastery, is none other than John D. Rockefeller Jr., entrepreneur, philanthropist and financial magnate. How is it possible that rich Americans are buying medieval monuments at the beginning of the last century? Where are the roots of America's love of the Middle Ages? What about Europe?
We will meet on Thursday, November 21 at 7 p.m. in the Hans Belting Library in the FF building in Veveří. The lecture will again be broadcast online on our YouTube channel.
The lecture is part of the Contexts of Humanity project of the company energeia o.p.s.
In 1913, the small town of Cuxa in the foothills of the Pyrenees experiences an unusual sight: the monastery of Saint Michael, its dilapidated, abandoned, robbed, but still standing pride is partly dismantled into pieces and taken away somewhere. Twenty years later, its fragments – these were mostly decorated capitals from the cloister cloister – are part of the collections of The Cloisters, one of the most famous museums in New York. The patron of this building, which looks like a medieval monastery, is none other than John D. Rockefeller Jr., entrepreneur, philanthropist and financial magnate. How is it possible that rich Americans are buying medieval monuments at the beginning of the last century? Where are the roots of America's love of the Middle Ages? What about Europe?
We will meet on Thursday, November 21 at 7 p.m. in the Hans Belting Library in the FF building in Veveří. The lecture will again be broadcast online on our YouTube channel.
The lecture is part of the Contexts of Humanity project of the company energeia o.p.s.