Table of Contents

Part I. Art, Aesthetics and Literature:; 1. Notions of the image in later Byzantium Charles Barber, David Jenkins, Nathan Leidholm, Dimiter Angelov, Martin Hinterberger and Thomas A. Carlson; 2. Artists and patrons Foteini Spingou, Ivan Drpić, Theocharis Tsampouras, Alice-Mary Talbot, Alexander Alexakis and Annemarie Weyl Carr; 3. Eikon and iconography in later Byzantium Foteini Spingou, Nikos Zagklas, Annemarie Weyl Carr, Mircea Duluş, Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis, Maria Mavroudi, Nikos Zagklas, Alicia Walker, Michael Jeffreys and Elizabeth Jeffreys; 4. Materials Foteini Spingou, Eric Cullhed, Marina Bazzani, with a note on the author in collaboration with Andreas Rhoby, Shannon Steiner, Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis and Mchael Grünbart; 5. Seeing spaces: responses to built environment Foteini Spingou, Efthymios Rizos, Alex J. Novikoff, George P. Majeska, Thomas A. Carlson, Cecilia Palombo, Lee Mordechai, Scott Ashley, Robert Romanchuk, Brad Hostetler, Matthew W. Herrington, Christopher Timm, Sarah Simmons, Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Mchael Grünbart, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Alicia Walker, M. Michèle Mulchahey, Divna Manolova and Paul Magdalino; 6. Art and devotion Foteini Spingou, Alexander Riehle, Alice-Mary Talbot, Ida Toth, Annemarie Weyl Carr, Luisa Andriollo, Michael Featherstone, Reinhart Ceulemans and Brad Hostetler; 7. Memory and art Foteini Spingou, Martin Hinterberger, Florin Leonte, Alice-Mary Talbot, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Andreas Rhoby and John Lansdowne; 8. Beauty Foteini Spingou, Ioannis Polemis, Alexander Alexakis, Dimiter Angelov, Mircea Duluş, Marina Bazzani, Daphne Penna, Vasileios Marinis, Elizabeth Jeffreys, K. Stewart, Peter Van Deun, Michael Jeffreys, Maria Mavroudi, Alexander Riehle and Christina Maranci; Part II. Literature, Art and Aesthetics:; 9. Counting down: inventories Maria Parani, Ludovic Bender, Alice-Mary Talbot and Foteini Spingou; 10. Describing, experiencing, narrating: the use of ekphrasis (ca. 1081–1330s) Ingela Nilsson, Eric Cullhed, Baukje van den Berg, Charis Messis, Konstantinos Chryssogelos, Maria Tomadaki, Przemysław Marciniak and Mircea Duluș; 11. Speaking: Ethopoiiae Elizabeth Jeffreys, Katarzyna Warcaba, Michael Jeffreys, Luisa Andriollo and Nikos Zagklas; 12. Instructing and dedicating: epigrams on works of art Foteini Spingou, Nikos Zagklas, Luisa Andriollo, Nikos Zagklas, L. Safran, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael Jeffreys, Andreas Rhoby, Annemarie Weyl Carr and Alice-Mary Talbot; 13. Reading: book epigrams Kristoffel Demoen, Rachele Ricceri, Renaat Meesters, Maria Tomadaki and Annemarie Weyl Carr; 14. Marking: later Byzantine epigraphic culture Ida Toth, Peter Van Deun, Sophia Kalopissi-Verti, Jeremy Johns, Linda Safran, Lisa Mahoney, Annemarie Weyl Carr, Irena Špadijer and Ekaterine Gedevanishvili; 15. Lamenting: tomb epigrams and epitaphs Foteini Spingou, Ilias Taxidis and Andreas Rhoby.