Marble past, monumental present : building with antiquities in the mediaeval Mediterranean / by Michael Greenhalgh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenhalgh, Michael.

Series:

Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 80.

The medieval Mediterranean, 0928-5520 ; v. 80

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marble buildings--Mediterranean Region.

Marble buildings.

Architecture, Medieval--Mediterranean Region.

Architecture, Medieval.

Marble--Recycling--Mediterranean Region.

Marble.

Mediterranean Region--Antiquities, Roman.

Mediterranean Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (652 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Language Note:

English

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. 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.

Contents:

Preliminary material / C.M.B. Greenhalgh

Chapter One. Introduction / C.M.B. Greenhalgh

Chapter Two. Ancient and early christian Europe and Byzantium / C.M.B. Greenhalgh

Chapter Three. Quarrying, transport and preparation Ofmarble in the Middle Ages / C.M.B. Greenhalgh

Chapter Four. Looted and trophy marble / C.M.B. Greenhalgh

Chapter Five. The marble hit parade: Marble members / Type And Destination

Chapter Six. Byzantium / C.M.B. Greenhalgh

Chapter Seven. Earlier Islam / C.M.B. Greenhalgh

Chapter Eight. King, Pope, Emir and Caliph: Europe and the islamic building boom / C.M.B. Greenhalgh

Chapter Nine. Italy and Sicily / C.M.B. Greenhalgh

Chapter Ten. Egypt, later Syria and Seljuk and Ottoman Turkey / C.M.B. Greenhalgh

Chapter Eleven. France and christian Spain / C.M.B. Greenhalgh

Conclusion / C.M.B. Greenhalgh

Bibliography / C.M.B. Greenhalgh

General index / C.M.B. Greenhalgh

Index of marble / C.M.B. Greenhalgh

Illustrations / C.M.B. Greenhalgh.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [531]-598) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-282-40007-X

9786612400070

90-474-2414-X

OCLC:

646187396

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004170834.i-634 DOI