Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Greenhalgh, Michael

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

xv, 634 p. : ill.; 25 cm. +

Summary

Accompanying CD-ROm contains ... "over 5000 images, together with discussions which extend various arguments in the printed text."--Page 4 of cover.

Series Statement

Medieval Mediterranean, 0928-5520 ; v. 80

Uniform Title

Medieval Mediterranean v. 80.

Subject

• Geschichte 500-1000
• Geschichte 1000-1500
• Marble buildings > Mediterranean Region
• Architecture, Medieval > Mediterranean Region
• Marble > Recycling > Mediterranean Region
• Antike
• Architektur
• Marmor
• Spolie
• Mediterranean Region > Antiquities, Roman

Genre/Form

CD-ROMs.

Note

• Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "over 5000 images, together with discussions which extend various arguments in the printed text."--P. [4] of cover.

Bibliography (note)

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

System Details (note)

• System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Windows Internet Explorer; CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Introduction -- Ch. 2 Ancient and Early Christian Europe and Byzantium -- Ch. 3 Quarrying, Transport and Preparation of Marble in the Middle Ages -- Ch. 4 Looted and Trophy Marble -- Ch. 5 Marble Hit Parade: Marble Members by Type and Destination -- Ch. 6 Byzantium -- Ch. 7 Earlier Islam -- Ch. 8 King, Pope, Emir and Caliph: Europe and the Islamic Building-Boom -- Ch. 9 Italy and Sicily -- Ch. 10 Egypt, Later Syria and Seljuk and Ottoman Turkey -- Ch. 11 France and Christian Spain.

ISBN

• 9789004170834 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9004170839 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008026654

OCLC

• 232656268
• SCSB-11197484

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library