Table of Contents

Megalith and tumulus; from tumulus to mausoleum; the mausoleum of Helicarnassus; the mausolea of the Roman emperors; the Romans and their monuments; from mausoleum to martyrium; Christian burial and medieval church architecture; the revival of the architectural tomb; chantries and funerary churches in medieval Europe; the family chapel in Renaissance Italy; triumphal tombs and the counter-reformation; the princely burial church in Catholic Europe; the family chapel in Protestant England and Sweden; the return of the mausoluem; funerary architecture in the 18th and early 19th centuries; the triumph of the cemetery.