Marble Past, Monumental Present

Building with Antiquities in the Mediaeval Mediterranean
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-17083-4
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 80, 634 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1216 g

Reihe: The Medieval Mediterranean

A broad survey of the various structural and decorative uses of marble and antiquities throughout the Mediterranean during the Millennium following the Emperor Constantine. The heavy footprint of Roman civic and religious architecture helped provide attractive and luxurious building materials, re-used to construct diverse and often sophisticated monuments. The book 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, as well as by the imperatives of religion - Venice to Alexandria, Damascus to Córdoba. Aachen makes less sense without reference to Rome or Jerusalem; Damascus without Kairouan; Istanbul without Cairo. To accompany the illustrations in the text, the DVD at the back of the book contains over 5,000 images, together with discussions which extend various arguments in the printed book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greenhalgh, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface xi
Acknowledgments xvii

Part One: Setting the Scene
1: Introduction 3
2: Ancient and Early Christian Europe and Byzantium 33
Part Two: Logistics and Fashions
3: Quarrying, Transport and Preparation of Marble in the Middle Ages
4: Looted and Trophy Marble 141
5: The Marble Hit Parade: Marble Members by Type and Destination
Part Three: Surveys of the Islamic and Christian Worlds
6: Byzantium 235
7: Earlier Islam 255
8: King, Pope, Emir and Caliph: Europe and the Islamic Building-Boom
9: Italy and Sicily 363
10: Egypt, Later Syria and Seljuk and Ottoman Turkey
11: France and Christian Spain 483

Conclusion & Bibliography
Conclusion 525
Bibliography 531

Indices
General Index 601
Index of Marble 615
Illustrations 619

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Greenhalgh, MA, Ph.D. (Manchester 1968) is Emeritus Professor of Art History at the Australian National University. His books include Donatello & his Sources (1982), The Survival of Roman Antiquities in the Middle Ages (1989), and many papers on the later fate of classical monuments.