'Neo-Medievalism Studies', Italy, and the Four Ghosts: architectural history and the study of medievalism

This historiographical article presents the first sustained discussion of the study of - and the tendency to ignore, underestimate, or criticise - Italian neomedieval architecture and reflects on the interplay of architectural history and medievalism studies, through examination of the Italian case. It suggests that, if medievalism and medievalism studies can be defined as the responses to the Middle Ages and the study of those responses, respectively, then 'neo-medievalism' and 'neo-medievalism studies' shall describe the architectural and artistic manifestations of medievalism and their study.