This book represents the first detailed study of Byzantine churches on
the island of Sardinia. The buildings are described and analyzed in
detail both individually and as a group. Many of these churches are
cruciform in plan and possess a dome. The book includes an analysis of
this plan type as used in Early Christian and Byzantine ecclesiastical
architecture from the fourth to the sixth centuries, concluding that the
Sardinian churches are datable to the early Byzantine period. Numerous
architectural drawings and color photographs illustrate the churches.