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

Preliminary material / C.M.B. Greenhalgh -- Chapter One. Introduction / C.M.B. Greenhalgh -- Chapter Two. Ancient and early christian Europe and Byzantium / C.M.B. Greenhalgh -- Chapter Three. Quarrying, transport and preparation Ofmarble in the Middle Ages / C.M.B. Greenhalgh -- Chapter Four. Looted and trophy marble / C.M.B. Greenhalgh -- Chapter Five. The marble hit parade: Marble members / Type And Destination -- Chapter Six. Byzantium / C.M.B. Greenhalgh -- Chapter Seven. Earlier Islam / C.M.B. Greenhalgh -- Chapter Eight. King, Pope, Emir and Caliph: Europe and the islamic building boom / C.M.B. Greenhalgh -- Chapter Nine. Italy and Sicily / C.M.B. Greenhalgh -- Chapter Ten. Egypt, later Syria and Seljuk and Ottoman Turkey / C.M.B. Greenhalgh -- Chapter Eleven. France and christian Spain / C.M.B. Greenhalgh -- Conclusion / C.M.B. Greenhalgh -- Bibliography / C.M.B. Greenhalgh -- General index / C.M.B. Greenhalgh -- Index of marble / C.M.B. Greenhalgh -- Illustrations / C.M.B. Greenhalgh.

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A broad survey of the various structural and decorative uses of marble and antiquities throughout the Mediterranean during the Millennium following the Emperor Constantine. The heavy footprint of Roman civic and religious architecture helped provide attractive and luxurious building materials, re-used to construct diverse and often sophisticated monuments. The book argues that marble-rich sites and cities around this lake were linked at various times and in varying degrees by trade, pilgrimage, war and diplomacy, as well as by the imperatives of religion - Venice to Alexandria, Damascus to Córdoba. Aachen makes less sense without reference to Rome or Jerusalem; Damascus without Kairouan; Istanbul without Cairo. To accompany the illustrations in the text, the DVD at the back of the book contains over 5,000 images, together with discussions which extend various arguments in the printed book.