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Deneuve, Catherine,
269

Denon, Baron Dominique-Vivant,
57–58

Diocletian, emperor of Rome,
55

Dion, Céline,
269

Dionysius,
22–23

Dogs of Heaven theater group,
228

Dresden,
83
,
185

Duccio, Agostino di,
155

Duchamp, Marcel,
225

 

E

Eden, Anthony,
185

Edinburgh,
274

Castle,
25

Parthenon,
29–31

Edinburgh College of Art,
15

Edward the Confessor, king of England,
94

Edward II, king of England,
107–10
,
116
,
118–19
,
121

tomb,
110–15
,
118–19

Edward III, king of England,
108
,
111–13
,
116–17
,
119

Edward (The Black Prince),
111

Egypt,
3
,
27
,
46
,
142
,
209
,
284
,
299–300

Eleanora, Holy Roman Empress,
98

Elgin, Thomas Bruce, Lord,
24–30
,
34

Elgin marbles,
7
,
24
,
26–30
,
233

Engels, Friedrich,
212–14
,
218–19
,
223–24
,
228–29
,
233

England,
94
,
97–98
,
100–101
,
105
,
116
,
184
,
292

Enlightenment,
169

Ephesus,
7

Erdine,
69

Erichthonius,
17

Escorial,
143

Euclid,
118
,
142

Eugenius IV, Pope,
152

Euripides,
18
,
25

 

F

Factory Records,
224

Falier, Vitale,
51–52

Farley, Abbot,
115
,
118–19

Fauvel, Louis,
26

Fechter, Peter,
241–42

Fédéric.
See
Frederick the Great

Federline, Kevin,
271

Felda, Abbot John de,
109

Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor,
97

Ferdinand, king of Aragon,
127–29

Ferrara,
153

Fieschi, Manuele de,
119

Firth of Forth,
25
,
35

Fiume,
88
,
92

Flanders,
184

Florence,
156
,
158–59
,
166
,
175

Cathedral,
151
,
158
,
161

Foliot, Abbot,
109

France,
56
,
58
,
133
,
176–77
,
183–84

ancien régime,
189
,
197
,
206

restored monarchy,
58
,
198
,
206

Franciscans,
151
,
169

Frankfurt,
183

Franks,
143
,
291

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke,
233

Frederick the Great (Fédéric), king of Prussia,
176–86

Freemasons,
118

French Revolution,
189
,
197–98
,
201
,
204

Friedrich Wilhelm III, king of Prussia,
174

Friedrich Wilhelm IV, king of Prussia,
174–75
,
180
,
183
,
185

Froucester, Abbot,
114–15
,
118

Fukuyama, Francis,
234

Futurists,
214–17
,
229–30

 

G

Gabriel (angel),
71
,
85
,
92

Gama, Vasco da,
128

Gamages, Abbot de,
109

Gehry, Frank,
271

Gemistos Plethon,
152
,
165

Genoa,
56
,
119

George V, king of England,
100

Georgevich, Alexander,
88
,
92

German Democratic Republic,
235–38
,
242–43
,
246
,
248

and
Ostalgie
,
253

Germany,
29
,
120
,
183–85

reunification,
248

unification,
183

Ghent,
129
,
136

Gibbon, Edward,
169

Giotto,
151
,
154

Girona,
7

Gloucester Cathedral,
7
,
105–21
,
257
,
296

bell tower,
115
,
117
,
119

choir,
109–17
,
119

cloister,
114–15
,
118

cloister vaults,
117

crossing,
113
,
119

flying buttress,
110–11

great window,
112

Lady Chapel,
115–19

masons,
116–17

south transept,
110–12
,
114
,
116
,
118

Gloucestershire,
118

Golgotha,
90

Goren, Shlomo,
288

Gothic architecture,
206

Gower, John,
117

Granada

Alhambra,
126–44
,
169
,
257

Alhambra inscriptions,
137–40

conquest of,
128

Moorish conquest,
139

Palacio Real,
126
,
134–36
,
143

Great Britain,
25–26
,
28
,
181

Great Pyramid of Giza,
5
,
7

Greece,
3
,
30–32
,
40
,
46–48
,
165–66
,
209
,
216
,
233

Greeks,
30
,
49
,
147
,
152
,
162
,
169
,
171

Gurney, Lord Thomas,
120

 

H

Habsburg family,
128
,
133

Hadrian, emperor of Rome,
28

Hadrian’s villa,
141–43

Hameline, Abbot,
109

Hanley, Abbot,
115
,
118

Happy Mondays,
225

Havel, River,
174

Hawaii,
247

Hebrew,
93
,
303

Helen of Troy,
44

Henry, Duke of Lancaster,
120

Henry VIII, king of England,
96–97
,
119

Henry, Schuyler,
260

Hephaestus,
17

Heraclius, emperor of Constantinople,
68

Hercules,
43–44
,
65
,
200

Hereford Cathedral,
117

Herod the Great, king of Israel,
285
,
301–2

Herodotus,
25
,
160

Hesperis
(Basinius),
152–53

Hesse,
243

Hildebrandt, Alexandra,
252

Hildebrandt, Rainer,
252

Hiroshima,
185
,
234

Hirschberg, A. S.,
293

Hitler, Adolf,
31
,
181
,
184
,
237–38
,
253

Hobsbawm, Eric,
233

Holland,
100
,
184

Hollywood,
11
,
262–63
,
269

Holy Houses,
81–100
,
296

Holy Land,
52–53
,
89
,
93
,
291–92

Holy League,
21
,
23–24
,
32
,
125

Holy Roman Emperor,
128–29

Holy Roman Empire,
56

Horton, Abbot,
112–13
,
119

House of Lords,
24
,
29–30

Hudson Valley,
5

Hugo, Victor,
195–98
,
201
,
203–4

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