1. On the reuse of antiquity : the perspectives of the archaeologist and of the historian / Arnold Esch -- 2. Reading Spolia in late antiquity and contemporary perception / Paolo Liverani -- 3. The use of older elements in the architecture of fourth-and fifth-century Rome : a contribution to the evaluation of Spolia / Hugo Brandenburg -- 4. Spolia : a definition in ruins / Michael Greenhalgh -- 5. Ancient gems in the Middle Ages : riches and ready-mades / Dale Kinney -- 6. Appropriation as inscription : making history in the first Friday Mosque of Delhi Finbarr / Barry Flood -- 7. Renaissance Spolia and Renaissance antiquity (one neighborhood, three cases) / Michael Koortbojian -- 8. Authenticity and alienation / Richard Brilliant -- 9. The tribune tower : Spolia as despoliation / Annabel J. Wharton -- 10. A medieval monument and its modern myths of iconoclasm : the enduring contestations over the Qutb Complex in Delhi, India / Mrinalini Rajagopalan -- 11. Spolia in contemporary architecture : searching for ornament and place / Hans-Rudolf Meier -- 12. Some thoughts about the significance of postmodern appropriation art / Donald Kuspit.