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Author Greenhalgh, Michael.

Title Marble past, monumental present : building with antiquities in the mediaeval Mediterranean / by Michael Greenhalgh
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 634 pages) : illustrations
Series The medieval Mediterranean, 0928-5520 ; v. 80
Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 80.
Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE SETTING THE SCENE; Chapter One Introduction; Chapter Two Ancient and Early Christian Europe and Byzantium; PART TWO LOGISTICS AND FASHIONS; Chapter Three Quarrying, Transport and Preparation of Marble in the Middle Ages; Chapter Four Looted and Trophy Marble; Chapter Five The Marble Hit Parade: Marble Members by Type and Destination; PART THREE SURVEYS OF THE ISLAMIC AND CHRISTIAN WORLDS; Chapter Six Byzantium; Chapter Seven Earlier Islam; Chapter Eight King, Pope, Emir and Caliph: Europe and the Islamic Building-Boom; Chapter Nine Italy and Sicily
Summary A broad survey of the various structural and decorative uses of marble and antiquities throughout the Mediterranean during the Millennium following the Emperor Constantine. It argues that marble-rich sites and cities around this lake were linked at various times and in varying degrees by trade, pilgrimage, war and diplomacy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-598) and indexes
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Subject Marble buildings -- Mediterranean Region
Architecture, Medieval -- Mediterranean Region
Marble -- Recycling -- Mediterranean Region
ARCHITECTURE -- Regional.
ARCHITECTURE -- Criticism.
ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General.
Architecture, Medieval
Classical antiquities
Marble buildings
Antike
Architektur
Kapitell
Marmor
Naturstein
Rezeption
Spolie
Architektur -- Geschichte Altertum -- Rezeption.
Spolie -- Mittelmeerraum -- Geschichte Mittelalter.
Marmor -- Mittelmeerraum -- Geschichte Mittelalter.
Marmor -- Geschichte Altertum -- Rezeption.
Marmor.
Architektur.
Spolie.
Arkitektur -- historia -- Medelhavsländerna -- medeltiden.
Marmorbyggnader -- historia -- Medelhavsländerna -- medeltiden.
Återanvändning av byggnadsmaterial -- historia -- Medelhavsländerna -- medeltiden.
SUBJECT Mediterranean Region -- Antiquities, Roman
Subject Mediterranean Region
Mittelmeerraum
Mittelmeerraum.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789047424147
904742414X