Reuse and Renovation in Roman Material Culture developed out of a panel “Afterwards: Art and Architecture as Iterative Practice in the Roman World” at the 2014 annual meeting of College Art Association. The eight case studies explore “the long histories of use, appreciation and sometimes even destruction” of monuments, taking a particular interest in secondary interventions (p. 13). Although each author has his or her own methodological approach, the concepts of object biography (drawing on Igor Kopytoff) and collective memory (as outlined by Maurice Halbwachs) serve as the predominant theoretical underpinnings of the volume. The essays are divided chronologically into two sections —the first four authors are concerned with material from the first and second centuries CE. The second half of the volume focuses more specifically on spoliation and moves forward in time, with case studies that range from Late Antiquity to the Early Medieval period (fourth to twelfth centuries CE).