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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Credulity | |
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| Druid portraits | |
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| How to relax the paradox | |
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| Strange temporalities of the artifact | |
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| Reference by Artifact | |
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| Relics of earliest Europe | |
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| Creative archeology | |
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| Replica chains | |
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| Reference by typology | |
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| Resemblance as an emergent property | |
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| Relics dependent on labels | |
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| Onomastic magic | |
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| Germany and “Renaissance” Destructive intimacy with the distant past | |
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| No German “Middle Ages” | |
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| Modernity as disenchantment | |
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| A different way to describe modernization | |
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| The German career of the heathen forms | |
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| Disruption of the substitutional chain by print | |
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| Forgery | |
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| The fabrication of facts | |
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| Document forgery as paradigm | |
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| Retrospective tombs | |
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| The translation of St. Simpertus | |
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| Likeness without reference | |
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| Some misidentified portraits | |
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| The true image of the emperor | |
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| The iterable profile | |
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| The colossus of Crete - Mirabilium | |
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| The quest for the bones of Siegfried | |
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| Replica | |
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| Recovery of the round arch | |
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| The return of Romanesque, in two dimensions | |
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| Alphabetic archeology | |
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| Early experiments in epigraphic perfection | |
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| Career of the Trajanic majuscule in Germany | |
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| Publication of icons and relics | |
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| Maximilian amplified | |
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| Replication of irregular information | |
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| Scholarly ambivalence about print | |
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| Urban archeology | |
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| Fiction | |
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| Learned credulity | |
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| Quasi-antiquities | |
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| Fictional architecture | |
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| Hypertrophy of alphabetic choice | |
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| Ethnologies of form | |
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| Convergences on the epigraphic ideal | |
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| Unreadable alphabets | |
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| Banishment, temporal and spatial, of the nude | |
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| The tomb of the poet | |
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| The tomb of the emperor | |
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| “Colossal puppets” | |
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| The tremor of forgery | |
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| Fiction and counterfiction | |
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| Re-enactment | |
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| Virtual pilgrimage | |
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| Devotion folded over on itself | |
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| Paradoxes of the signature | |
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| Pressures on the referential model | |
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| Art and prophecy | |
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| The future of credulity | |
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| Figure Credits | |
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| Index | |