Allan Doig read Architecture at King's College, Cambridge, where he also completed a PhD. After a number of years as a university lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Kent, Canterbury, he was ordained, and during his curacy at St Helen's in Abingdon was responsible for the restoration of the fourteenth-century painted ceiling in the Lady Chapel there. From his curacy he took up the Chaplaincy of Lady Margaret Hall in the University of Oxford and was elected to a Fellowship in 1996. He has served on the Oxford Diocesan Advisory Committee for the Care of Churches, the Council for the Care of Churches, English Heritage's Places of Worship Advisory Committee, and the Fabric Advisory Committees of Salisbury and Ely Cathedrals, and he has also published many books and articles on the history of church architecture. He is a Fellow of both the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Historical Society.

Allen Doig has written an important and informative book; read it.

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1: 'The World's Most Miraculous Place': the Church of the Holy Sepulchre 2: Christianity at the Heart of the Roman Empire: Old St Peter's Basilica on the Vatican Hill 3: New Rome and the Horizons of Empire: Hagia Sophia in Istanbul 4: 'The Third Rome': the Cathedral of the Dormition in the Moscow Kremlin 5: Renovatio Romani Imperii: Charlemagne's Church of the Holy Mother of God at Aachen 6: 'Transported from this inferior to that higher world': The Abbey of St-Denis 7: 'To the increce of oure merites': God's House at Ewelme, Oxfordshire 8: The Western Caliphate and the Christian Monarchs: the Cathedral, Cordoba 9: Ultimate Authority Under Attack: the Building of Renaissance St Peter's 10: The Iberian Empires and the Evangelisation of the World: the Church of Sant'Ignazio, Rome 11: English Parish Churches Exported: the Crimean Memorial Church, Istanbul 12: 'A Phoenix too Soon': Coventry Cathedral Index

Allan Doig read Architecture at King's College, Cambridge, where he also completed a PhD. After a number of years as a university lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Kent, Canterbury, he was ordained, and during his curacy at St Helen's in Abingdon was responsible for the restoration of the fourteenth-century painted ceiling in the Lady Chapel there. From his curacy he took up the Chaplaincy of Lady Margaret Hall in the University of Oxford and was elected to a Fellowship in 1996. He has served on the Oxford Diocesan Advisory Committee for the Care of Churches, the Council for the Care of Churches, English Heritage's Places of Worship Advisory Committee, and the Fabric Advisory Committees of Salisbury and Ely Cathedrals, and he has also published many books and articles on the history of church architecture. He is a Fellow of both the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Historical Society.

Allen Doig has written an important and informative book; read it.

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1: 'The World's Most Miraculous Place': the Church of the Holy Sepulchre 2: Christianity at the Heart of the Roman Empire: Old St Peter's Basilica on the Vatican Hill 3: New Rome and the Horizons of Empire: Hagia Sophia in Istanbul 4: 'The Third Rome': the Cathedral of the Dormition in the Moscow Kremlin 5: Renovatio Romani Imperii: Charlemagne's Church of the Holy Mother of God at Aachen 6: 'Transported from this inferior to that higher world': The Abbey of St-Denis 7: 'To the increce of oure merites': God's House at Ewelme, Oxfordshire 8: The Western Caliphate and the Christian Monarchs: the Cathedral, Cordoba 9: Ultimate Authority Under Attack: the Building of Renaissance St Peter's 10: The Iberian Empires and the Evangelisation of the World: the Church of Sant'Ignazio, Rome 11: English Parish Churches Exported: the Crimean Memorial Church, Istanbul 12: 'A Phoenix too Soon': Coventry Cathedral Index

Allan Doig read Architecture at King's College, Cambridge, where he also completed a PhD. After a number of years as a university lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Kent, Canterbury, he was ordained, and during his curacy at St Helen's in Abingdon was responsible for the restoration of the fourteenth-century painted ceiling in the Lady Chapel there. From his curacy he took up the Chaplaincy of Lady Margaret Hall in the University of Oxford and was elected to a Fellowship in 1996. He has served on the Oxford Diocesan Advisory Committee for the Care of Churches, the Council for the Care of Churches, English Heritage's Places of Worship Advisory Committee, and the Fabric Advisory Committees of Salisbury and Ely Cathedrals, and he has also published many books and articles on the history of church architecture. He is a Fellow of both the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Historical Society.

Allen Doig has written an important and informative book; read it.

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1: 'The World's Most Miraculous Place': the Church of the Holy Sepulchre 2: Christianity at the Heart of the Roman Empire: Old St Peter's Basilica on the Vatican Hill 3: New Rome and the Horizons of Empire: Hagia Sophia in Istanbul 4: 'The Third Rome': the Cathedral of the Dormition in the Moscow Kremlin 5: Renovatio Romani Imperii: Charlemagne's Church of the Holy Mother of God at Aachen 6: 'Transported from this inferior to that higher world': The Abbey of St-Denis 7: 'To the increce of oure merites': God's House at Ewelme, Oxfordshire 8: The Western Caliphate and the Christian Monarchs: the Cathedral, Cordoba 9: Ultimate Authority Under Attack: the Building of Renaissance St Peter's 10: The Iberian Empires and the Evangelisation of the World: the Church of Sant'Ignazio, Rome 11: English Parish Churches Exported: the Crimean Memorial Church, Istanbul 12: 'A Phoenix too Soon': Coventry Cathedral Index