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1. Context: people and change in conservation p.1, 1.1 Beating the bounds: the scope of the argument p.2, The question of living buildings Fixity, fluidity and the problem of change p.7, Buildings as people p.11, Framing conservation as applied ethics p.15, 1.2 Conservation as ‘making’ and ‘keeping’ p.17, Conservation, preservation and monuments p.18, Significance and values in the contemporary conservation framework p.21, A new heritage paradigm? P.25, 1.3 Wider heritage concerns p.27, Heritage studies p.27, Agency and material vitality p.29, 1.4 Structure of the book p.32, 2. Modernity: conservation, discontinuity and the past p.40, 2.1 The development of conservation, Restoration p.40, Reconstruction p.45, 2.2 Modernity and the past p.46, 2.3 But is it art? – non-aesthetic interpretation p.50, Romantic and classical approaches to hermeneutics p.52, Genius and authorship p.53, 2.4 Waking up to context p.55, Cultural landscape and the palimpsest p.55, Conclusion p.60, Case Study: Carlo Scarpa, William Morris and the Castelvecchio, Verona p.65, Background p.65, Murphy on Morris p.72, The instructive relic p.74, Extending the narrative p.75, 3. People: community, language and power p.79, 3.1 Where are the people? p.79, Experts, universalism and the local p.80, Intangible heritage p.83, The uses of intangibility p.87, People and social value p.90, Heritage as discourse p.94, Community discourse p.97, 3.2 Living heritage p.99, English parish churches p.102, Conclusion p.105, Case Study: St Alkmund, Duffield and the ecclesiastical exemption p.110, Parish churches and the Faculty Jurisdiction system p.110, The case of St Alkmund, Duffield p.113, Critiquing the original judgment p.116, Justification and enhancement p.119, Theology and community p.120, Conclusion p.121, 4. Tradition: change and continuity p.124, 4.1 Modernity, tradition and continuity p.124, Tradition and conservatism p.125, Tradition and the canon p.127, 4.2 Hermeneutics p.130, Gadamer and tradition p.130, The fusion of horizons p.135, Understanding the other p.138, 4.3 Virtue ethics p.140, Maclntyre’s contribution p.140, The vitality of tradition p.143, Conclusion p.145, 5. Narrative: time, history and what happens next p.149, 5.1 Temporality, History and transition, p.149, Double temporality p.152, 5.2 Narrativity p.160, The nature of narrative p.155, Identity p.157, Community and the fitness of narrativity p.160, 5.3 The relevance of narrative for conservation p.162, The central metaphor p.162, Benefits of the narrative model p.165, Conclusion p.169, 6. Application: the narrative approach to conservation p.174, 6.1 Questions of principle p.175, Explanatory competition p.175, The cultural whole Continuity of character p.178, Completed narratives p.180, 6.2 Questions of everyday practice p.183, Significance p.183, Reversibility p.186, Expendability p.188, Craftsmanship p.189, 6.3 Questions of meta-practice p.191, ‘Who need experts?’ p.191, People power p.194, Difficult heritage p.195, Restoration p.199, 6.4 Compatibility with tradition p.200, Case Study: The SCARAB Manifesto Context p.205, The text of the Manifesto p.207, Preamble p.207, Ancient buildings exude LIFE p.207, Ancient buildings expect CHANGE p.208, Ancient buildings embody TRADITION p.208, Ancient buildings form COMMUNITY p.209, 7. Conclusion: conservation ‘as if people mattered’, Conservation futures p.211, History in the gap p.213, Hybridity and the via media p.216, Index p.220 |
