Monuments and Monumentality – different perspectives

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Content 5
3. Preface 7
4. Introduction 11
5. Part I. Theoretical Framework and Methodology
6. Monuments and Monumentality – different perspectives 17
7. Monumentality: Research Approaches and Methodology 41
8. Perceiving monumentality 65
9. Responses to the Theoretical Framework and Methodology
10. Monumentalbaukunst – Architektur als erweiterter Denk- und Erfahrungsraum 93
11. Monumentality in context – a reply from Egyptology 99
12. Part II. Case Studies
13. The Social Meaning of Big Architecture, or the Sociology of the Monumental 107
14. Monumental Negligence: the Difference between Working and Alienated Labor 133
15. Zerstörungswut – The Deliberate Destruction of MonuMentality in Ancient and Modern Times 157
16. The operation of monumentality in low occupation-density settlements in prehistory: a regional scale view 171
17. The Massif Rouge and Early Dynastic high terraces: Dynamics of monumentality in Mesopotamia during the 3^rd millennium BCE 193
18. La grandeur de Babylone: étude des inscriptions royales 209
19. The monumental Late Antique cisterns of Resafa, Syria as refined capacity and water-quality regulation system 223
20. Monumentality, Building Techniques, and Identity Construction in Roman Italy: The Remaking of Cosa, post-197 BCE 241
21. Monumentality of the Landscape: the Coixtlahuaca Valley Archaeology and the Lienzo Seler II 269
22. Monumentality by numbers 291
23. Texts in the City: Monumental Inscriptions in Jerusalem’s Urban Landscape 309
24. Contributors 345