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A hidden saint in Sibiu

Saturday, 3 February 2007

Sibiu 2006. A removed saint.
Until now, much of my academic work has been on street names, statues and memorials, and the, mainly, postcommunist politics of memory mainly in the context of Budapest but also on London. In Sibiu (Hermannstadt in German, Nagyszeben in Hungarian) in Transylvania, Romania, I was fascinated by this statue, which [...]