Article: Kunst um 1400 im Erzstift Magdeburg: Studien zur Rekonstruktion eines verlorenen Zentrums.(Book review)

Maria Dieters. Kunst um 1400 im Erzstift Magdeburg: Studien zur Rekonstruktion eines verlorenen Zentrums.

Neue Forschungen zur deutschen Kunst 7. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2006. 190 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. [euro]76. ISBN: 3-87-157-208-X.

This beautifully produced volume reconciles the old and new in German scholarship in order to reconstruct the style and influence of the archdiocese of Magdeburg during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Magdeburg, capital of the modern state of Sachsen-Anhalt, had been from 708 the favorite residence of Otto the Great, who envisioned it as "the Constantinople of the North," and was raised to ...

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