Introduction / Dale Kinney -- On the reuse of antiquity : the perspectives of the archaeologist and of the historian / Arnold Esch -- Reading spolia in late antiquity and contemporary perception / Paolo Liverani -- The use of older elements in the architecture of fourth-and fifth-century Rome : a contribution to the evaluation of spolia / Hugo Brandenburg -- Spolia : a definition in ruins / Michael Greenhalgh -- Ancient gems in the Middle Ages : riches and ready-mades / Dale Kinney -- Appropriation as inscription : making history in the first Friday Mosque of Delhi Finbarr / Barry Flood -- Renaissance spolia and Renaissance antiquity (one neighborhood, three cases) / Michael Koortbojian -- Authenticity and alienation / Richard Brilliant -- The building's body : spolia as supplement, substitution, destruction / Annabel J. Wharton -- A medieval monument and its modern myths of iconoclasm : the enduring contestations over the Qutb Complex in Delhi / Mrinalini Rajagopalan -- Spolia in contemporary architecture : searching for ornament and place / Hans-Rudolf Meier -- Some thoughts about the significance of postmodern appropriation art / Donald Kuspit -- Epilogue / Richard Brilliant.
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