Lecture course conducted as a colloquium on major topics in the current
literature on early Christian architecture in the Latin West and early
Byzantine East: the foundation of the new capital of Constantinople; urban
development in terms of political topography; the problem of the decline of
cities in the eastern Mediterranean; pilgrimage and pilgrim churches;  the
display of relics in churches;  burials in church buildings and in mausolea;
imperial and aristocratic patronage, including that of women; guilds and
architects; imperial and episcopal palaces; domestic architecture; the use
of spoils in the buildings of the period; the use of marble and the orders.
Readings; oral presentations; short papers.  Final project.