First published in 2003 Consuming the Past maps the cultural history of the period from the end of the Franco-Prussian war to the 1905 separation of Church and State illuminating the powerful appeal that the medieval past held for a society undergoing the rapid changes of industrialisation.

Laura Morowitz, Elizabeth Emery

Introduction

1. The Middle Ages Belong to France: Nationalist Paradigms of the Medieval

2. Packaging the Primitifs: The Medieval Artist, the Neo-Primitif and the Art Market

3. From the Living Room to the Museum and Back Again: The Institutionalization of Medieval Art

4. The Gothic Cathedral in Fin-De-Siècle France: From Gesamtkunstwerk to 'French genius'

5. From Cathedral to Cabaret: The Popularity of Medieval Stained Glass and Tapestries

6. Marketing the Sacred: Medieval Pilgrimage and the Catholic Revival

7. Feasts, Fools and Festivals: The Popular Middle Ages

Conclusion

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index