Public Pantheons in Revolutionary Europe

EVELINE G. BOUWERS Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Bielefeld University, Germany. Her current research focuses on the use of violence and iconoclasm in the culture wars of modern Europe. She studied history, art history, and political science in Utrecht, Leuven and Amsterdam and holds a PhD from the European University Institute.

'Each case is well documented and skillfully studied. This is particularly profitable for her discussion of the Roman and Bavarian episodes, which are less well-known. The work is especially convincing when describing the specifics of each experience, which all together provide her model of the state monopoly of commemoration.' Antoine Lilti, Annales

• Acknowledgments Introduction: The Journey of the European Pantheonic Imagination Pantheon: the History of a Concept on the Move Competition in the Parliamentary Pantheon in London The Eclipse of Exemplarity: the Imperial Pantheon in Paris A Papal Pantheon? Canova's 'illustrious Italians' in Rome 'National education' in a Royal Pantheon in Regensburg Conclusions: Public Pantheons: a European History? Bibliography Appendices