List of IllustrationsIntroduction1 Beliefs and Imagery of Resilient Ancient Worldviews 1 Old Religions and Ancient Symbolic Thought 2 The Representational Function of Religious Sites 3 The Symbolism of Vitality and its Persistence in the Christian West2 Byzantine Iconoclasm and Architecture 1 Early Christian Architecture and Pagan Traditions 2 Byzantine Iconoclasm, Dualism, and the Paulician Heresy 3 Formless Matter and Post-Iconoclastic Armenian Renaissance3 The Bogomils, the Cathars, and Christian Architecture 1 The Bogomils and Macedonian Architecture 2 Catholic Architecture by the Adriatic Sea 3 From the Cathars to French Gothic4 The Architectural Renaissance of Pagan Representations 1 The Persistence of Scytho-Indian Traditions 2 Quattrocento and the Greek-Byzantine Legacy 3 Pagan Beliefs and Design Practices During the Protestant Reformation 4 The Architecture of the Polish-Lithuanian Reformation5 Architecture and the Early Modern Modality of Thought 1 Design Experimentation Dubiously Called Mannerism 2 Design Practices on the Cusp of the Modern Era6 AfterwordBibliographyIndex.