Review of the hardback: 'Dr Brush's study should be welcomed as a remind that it was not on the study of the Italian Renaissance alone that the discipline of art history was built. The Art Newspaper

• Part I. Mentalitiés: 1. Art history and cultural history during the 1880s: the discursive range; Part II. Monumental Styles in Medieval Art History: 2. Wilhelm Vöge and the beginnings of the Monumental style in the Middle Ages (1894); 3. Thematic and methodological range in the scholarship of Goldschmidt and Vöge to c. 1905; Part III. Resonances: 4. German and international responses at the turn of the century; 5. Implications for later discourse in medieval art history.