Author
Groten; Miel
Year
2022
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Language
English
Pages
29
Last Update
21-May-2026
Keywords
Architecture & Architectural History ; History ; European Studies
Empires are large. It is one of their signature qualities. As assemblages of different peoples and polities, empires link distant territories to each other by their very definition: they are ‘large political units, expansionist or with a memory of power extended over space’; consequently, when studying empires, ‘[s]pace matters, size matters, and so does the character of space and size’.¹ Yet empires are also small. Or rather, their effects are also felt in local and small-scale places, right down to the level of towns, streets, and even individual buildings. Such buildings are the subject of this study: pieces of architecture...
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