English with a French accent : architectural Franglais in late-twelfth-century England? / Peter Draper -- Il gran rifiuto : French Gothic in Central and Southern Italy in the last quarter of the thirteenth century / Caroline Bruzelius -- Naming of parts : describing architecture in the High Middle Ages / Lindy Grant -- Architectural vision in Albrecht von Scharfenberg's Jüngerer Titurel--a vision of architecture? / Achim Timmermann -- Architecture, language, and rhetoric in Alberti's De re aedificatoria / Caroline van Eck -- Architecture, texts, and imitation in late-fifteenth- and early-sixteenth-century Rome / Cammy Brothers -- Sanmicheli's architecture and literary theory / Paul Davies and David Hemsoll -- Architects and academies : architectural theories of Imitatio and the literary debates on language and style / Alina A. Payne -- The rhetorical model in the formation of French architectural language in the sixteenth century : the triumphal arch as commonplace / Yves Pauwels -- Monstrous Babels : language and architectural style in the English Renaissance / Christy Anderson -- Languages and architecture in Scotland, 1500-1660 / Deborah Howard.