1. Glass and Architecture in Ancient Times
2. Dark Ages?: Architectural Glass in Early Medieval Europe
3. Light from Light: The Theology of Stained Glass
4. ""Closyd well with royall glas"": Medieval Domestic Glass
5. ""Glass windows made of fabric"": A Forgotten Tradition
6. From the House of God to the Houses of Burghers
7. Glass and Class: Personalization and Prestige
8. From Sacred Material to Secular Commodity: The Reformation of Glass
9. The Rise of Cristallo
10. More Light: From the Baroque to the Enlightenment
11. Too Much Glass: The Genealogy of a Nineteenth-Century Concern
12. Palaces of Glass: Vitreous Visions in an Age of Public Glass
13. Modernity and the Struggle for Glass Architecture
14. Transparency between Totalitarianism and Democracy
15. Postwar Enthusiasm, Postmodernist Rejection-and the Present
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index