CONTENTS

List of Illustrations page ix

List of Maps xx
List of Tables xxi
Acknowledgements xxii
A Note on Names xxvi
List of Abbreviations xxvii

Introduction: Mosaics Matter 1

P A R T I Making Wall Mosaics 19
Introduction to Part I 19

CHAPTER 1
Making Glass Tesserae 21

CHAPTER 2
Making Mosaics 46

CHAPTER 3
The Business of Mosaics 96

CHAPTER 4
The Value of Mosaics 120

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P A R T I I Mosaics by Century 145

Introduction to Part II 145

CHAPTER 5
In the Beginning: Wall Mosaics in the Fourth Century 155

CHAPTER 6
Types or Prototypes? Mosaics in the Fifth Century 183

CHAPTER 7
Emperors, Kings, Popes and Bishops: Mosaics in the Sixth
Century 215

CHAPTER 8
New Beginnings? Islam, Byzantium and Rome:
The Seventh and Eighth Centuries 254

CHAPTER 9
Medium and Message: Mosaics in the Ninth and
Tenth Centuries 293

C H A P T E R 10
A Universal Language? Eleventh-Century Mosaics 334

C H A P T E R 11
Incorrigibly Plural: Mosaics in the Twelfth Century 365

C H A P T E R 12
Men and Mosaics: The Thirteenth Century 413

C H A P T E R 13
Boom and Bust: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries 442

In Conclusion 461

Appendix of Sites 466

Notes 476
Bibliography 552
Subject index 602

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