Main entry:

Greenhalgh, Michael.

Title & Author:

Constantinople to Cordoba : dismantling ancient architecture in the East, North Africa and Islamic Spain / by Michael Greenhalgh.

Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2012.

Description:

xxviii, 510 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-495) and indexes.
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.

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.

ISBN:

9789004212466 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9004212469 (hardback ; alk. paper)
(e-book)
9789004229273
9004229272 (e-book)
9789004229273 (e-book)

Subject:

Architecture, Ancient Mediterranean Region.
Building materials Recycling Mediterranean Region.
Classical antiquities Destruction and pillage Mediterranean Region.
Architecture, Ancient.
Building materials Recycling.
Classical antiquities Destruction and pillage.
Arkitektur historia.
Återanvändning av byggnadsmaterial.
Antika fornlämningar.
Medelhavsländerna.
Mediterranean Region.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 281178
Call No.: BIB 218304
Status: Available