{"title":"Churches and States (Updated)","authors":"Richard Wittman","doi":"10.5749/futuante.17.1.0019","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The public anguish, debates, recriminations, and political struggles that have come in the wake of the April 2019 fire that destroyed the roof and spire of Notre-Dame in Paris are not without precedent. The present essay—a revised and extended version of a text first published in September 2019 in Places Journal—relates the post-fire saga of Notre-Dame to an uncannily similar (if rarely noted) nineteenth-century precedent: the debate and reconstruction of the early Christian basilica of San Paolo fuori le mura (Saint Paul’s Outside the Walls) subsequent to its destruction by fire in 1823. The essay aims to use the remarkably suggestive parallels between the two events as a means of informing the current debate.","PeriodicalId":53609,"journal":{"name":"Future Anterior","volume":"91 1","pages":"19 - 45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Future Anterior","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5749/futuante.17.1.0019","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:The public anguish, debates, recriminations, and political struggles that have come in the wake of the April 2019 fire that destroyed the roof and spire of Notre-Dame in Paris are not without precedent. The present essay—a revised and extended version of a text first published in September 2019 in Places Journal—relates the post-fire saga of Notre-Dame to an uncannily similar (if rarely noted) nineteenth-century precedent: the debate and reconstruction of the early Christian basilica of San Paolo fuori le mura (Saint Paul’s Outside the Walls) subsequent to its destruction by fire in 1823. The essay aims to use the remarkably suggestive parallels between the two events as a means of informing the current debate.
摘要:2019年4月巴黎圣母院屋顶和塔尖被大火烧毁后,公众的痛苦、辩论、指责和政治斗争并非没有先例。本文是2019年9月首次发表在《地方杂志》(Places journal)上的一篇文章的修订版和扩展版,它将巴黎圣母院火灾后的传奇故事与19世纪的一个惊人相似(但很少有人注意到)的先例联系起来:1823年被大火烧毁的早期基督教大教堂圣保罗大教堂(San Paolo fuori le mura)的辩论和重建。这篇文章旨在利用这两个事件之间引人注目的相似之处,为当前的辩论提供信息。