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Essays over de Franse monnik Suger (ca 1081-1151) en zijn werken als abt van het klooster Saint-Denis.
"This scholarly work fundamentally changes the way we think about the monastic church of Vezelay and its sculptures. He considers how these works intersect with various aspects of monastic culture, from poetry to a sign language used during observed periods of silence. From th…
Before the mid fifteenth century, the Christian and Islamic governments of Europe had restricted the architecture and design of synagogues and often prevented Jews from becoming architects. With the socio-political changes that occurred during the course of the early modern peri…
"This book examines the development of Roman temple architecture from its earliest history in the sixth century B.C. to the reigns of Hadrian and the Antonines in the second century A.D. Although archaeologists, architects, and historians have studied these temples since the Ren…
"The Dome of the Rock, the beautiful Muslim shrine in the walled Old City of Jerusalem, was fully restored to its original state in the last half-century. Thus, this structure, sited on the third holiest spot on earth for Muslims, is at once a product of the seventh century and …
"In the flux created by the Mughal conquest in the seventeenth century, Hindu landholders in eastern India began to build a spectacularly beautiful new style of brick temple, sheathed with terra cotta narrative plaques and in a form unlike that of temples built for a thousand ye…
