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Constantinople to Cordoba : dismantling ancient architecture in the East, North Africa and Islamic Spain
- Title
- Constantinople to Cordoba : dismantling ancient architecture in the East, North Africa and Islamic Spain / by Michael Greenhalgh.
- Author
- Greenhalgh, Michael.
- Publication
- Boston : Brill, 2012.
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Details
- Description
- xxviii, 510 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "A survey of the various ways in which the extensive remains of ancient architecture were reused or destroyed in the crescent from Greece and Turkey through Syria, Palestine, North Africa to Islamic Spain. The book complements and echoes some of the themes in the author's "Marble Past, Monumental Present" (2009). Offering a large number of varied examples, it examines how the ancient landscape was transformed - towns, roads and ports, fountains and waterways, tombs, palaces, villas and inscriptions. It then addresses reuse in churches, mosques and other structures, dealing also with collectors and museum-builders. Also considered are the dismantling and transport of the often massive blocks, and the superstitions surrounding antiquities which contributed to their continuing renown or to their destruction."--Publisher's website.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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: Re-Using, dismantling, and destroying the landscape. Temples churches and mosques ; Ancient Monuments: 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 ; Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JQE 13-715
- ISBN
- 9789004212466 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9004212469 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9004229272 (e-book)
- 9789004229273 (e-book)
- 9789004229273 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2012015412
- OCLC
- 789149840
- Author
- Greenhalgh, Michael.
- Title
- Constantinople to Cordoba : dismantling ancient architecture in the East, North Africa and Islamic Spain / by Michael Greenhalgh.
- Imprint
- Boston : Brill, 2012.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JQE 13-715