Through the use of images, diagrams, and detailed descriptions, this book enables readers to appreciate how the construction, design, and function of famous structures inform our understanding of societies of the past.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Acknowledgments.
Preface.
Introduction.
How to Read Buildings.
Chronology.
Civic Architecture.
1: Doge’s Palace.
2: Durham Exchequer Building.
3: Piazza del Campo.
4: Ponte Vecchio.
5: Thingvellir Plain and Logberg.
Commercial and Craft Architecture.
6: Hospital of the Knights of St. John on Rhodes.
7: Medieval Port Crane.
8: Ripon Cathedral Lime Kiln.
9: St. Mary’s Guildhall.
10: The Shambles.
11: Smithy, Manuscript Image.
12: Sugar Mill.
13: Tailor’s Workshop, Manuscript Image.
Domestic Architecture.
14: Bayleaf Farmstead.
15: Norman House.
16: Peasant Longhouses of Wharram Percy.
17: Reredorter at Rievaulx Abbey.
Fortifications.
18: Alhambra.
19: City Walls of Ávila.
20: Eilean Donan Castle.
21: Fyrkat Ring Fort.
22: Harlech Castle.
23: Krak des Chevaliers.
24: Rock of Cashel.
25: Tintagel Castle.
26: Tower Homes of San Gimignano.
27: Wartburg Castle.
Religious and Funerary Architecture.
28: Baptistery of St. Jean.
29: Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi.
30: Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.
31: Chartres Cathedral.
32: Gamla Uppsala Burial Mounds.
33: Hagia Sophia.
34: Iona Abbey.
35: Leaning Tower of Pisa.
36: Mausoleum of Theodoric the Great.
37: The Mosque of Córdoba.
38: Old-New Synagogue.
39: Oseberghaugen Ship Burial.
40: Pirita Convent Church.
41: Poblet Monastery.
42: St. Mary of the Mongols Greek Orthodox Church.
