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ISBN10: 0230294715, ISBN13: 9780230294714, [publisher: Palgrave Macmillan] Hardcover First Edition Hardcover, xv + 325 pages, NOT ex-library. Gentle wear, pages are clean and bright throughout, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show short creases to edges, scuffed tips of lower outer corners. Issued without a dust jacket. -- The story of how the concept of a pantheon, a building honouring great individuals, spread across Revolutionary Europe and interacted with socio-political and cultural changes. -- Contents: Introduction: The Journey of the European Pantheonic Imagination; 1. Pantheon: The History of a Concept on the Move [Origins of Pantheon; Viris illustribus as a Political Category; Transformations of the 18th-Century World ('Et in Arcadia Ego': The Classical Tradition; Royal Absolutism and the Rise of a Middle Class; Religion and Church Power in the Eighteenth Century; Changing Perspectives on Death; Rise of Romantic Nationalism); Discourse on Great Men Prior to the French Revolution (Domestic Pantheons: Gardens; Libraries and the Mantelpiece); Public Monuments in Pre-Revolutionary Europe; Semantic Changes: 'Pantheon' in Contemporary Lexicons]; 2. Competition in the Parliamentary Pantheon in London ['Robbing Peter to pay Paul': From Westminster Abbey to St Paul's Cathedral; Memento mori: Or on the Establishment of Parliament's Pantheon; Pantheon Established: The Revolutionary ...