Introduction -- Section One: The Mediaeval Landscape and Its Features. An Overview ; Greek and Roman Towns ; Roads and Ports ; Fountains Waterways and Irrigation ; Tombs ; Palaces and Villas -- Inscriptions -- Quarries and Quarrying. -- Section two: ReUsing dismantling and destroying the landscape ; Temples churches and mosques ; Superstition preservation degradation destruction ; Town and Fortress Walls Projectiles and Cannon ; The Mechanics of Dismantling and Transport. -- Section Three: Travelling Collecting Digging ; Collecting Antiquities ; The French Invasion of Algeria and the Roman Past ; The Transformation of the Mediaeval Mediterranean
Summary
Offering a multitude of examples through the centuries, this book examines how the architecture of the ancient world was transformed or destroyed under Byzantium and Islam, to produce new forms which often owed their materials and sometimes their styles to the past
