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Type:
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Date:
2003
Notes:
"There is no Latin word for 'restoration' as we understand it today. Instaurare, reficere, renovare do not mean 'restore,' but 're-establish,' make new," Viollet le Duc reminded us in 1866. It is all a matter of language. We now have a host of words to talk about restoration and the various practices it involves. The development of ethnographic restoration has contributed its share. Let's take a look at the jargon. - - original abstract.
