The emperor's house : palaces from Augustus to the age of absolutism / edited by Michael Featherstone, Jean-Michel Spieser, Gulru Tanman and Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt.
Antiquity and Late Antiquity -- The Middle Ages in the West -- The Middle Ages in the East -- The Renaissance, Absolutism and the Ottoman World -- The Renaissance, Absolutism and the Ottoman World -- Epilogue.