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.
Reuse value : spolia and appropriation in art and architecture from Constantine to Sherrie Levine. ISBN 9781409435181. Published by Ashgate in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.