Byzantine Style, Religion and Civilization

Elizabeth M. Jeffreys is Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature in the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Exeter College; she has published extensively on topics in Byzantine literature.

• James Cochran Stevenson Runciman Anthony Bryer; Part I. Style: 1. The Christian Topography (Vat. gr. 699) revisited: image, text, and conflict on ninth-century Byzantium Leslie Brubaker; 2. Byzantine enamels in the twentieth century David Buckton; 3. The rise and fall of towns, loci of maritime traffic, and silk production: the problem of Thisvi-Kastorion Archibald Dunn; 4. Women in Serbian politics, diplomacy and art at the beginning of Ottoman rule Zaga Gavrilovic; 5. Byzantium-Venice-Manchester: an early thirteenth-century carved marble basin and British Byzantinism at the turn of the twentieth century Lucy-Anne Hunt; 6. Manners maketh Romans? Young barbarians at the emperor's court Jonathan Shepard; 7. Byzantine and crusader art: Sir Steven was right D. C. Winfield; Part II. Religion: 8. The discovery of the relics of St Grigor and the development of Armenian tradition in ninth-century Byzantium Timothy Greenwood; 9. The image of Edessa: some notes on its later fortunes Paul Hetherington; 10. Photios as theologian Andrew Louth; 11. Magic at the cross-roads in the sixth century J. Nimmo-Smith; 12. 'The Angelic Life': monasteries for eunuchs Shaun Tougher; 13. Armed pilgrimage and the reign of the anti-Christ: Steven Runciman and the origins of the First Crusade F. R. Trombley; Part III. Civilization: 14. Wine for immortality and immortality for wine: reflections on the Dionysiaca of Nonnos of Panopolis David Frendo; 15. 'Greek Fire' revisited: recent and current research John Haldon; 16. Constantinople in the reign of Basil II Catherine Holmes; 17. A short piece of narrative history: war and diplomacy in the Balkans, winter 921/2-spring 924 J. D. Howard-Johnston; 18. Restoration of Orthodoxy, the pardon of Theophilos and the Acta Davidis, Symeonis et Georgii Patricia Karlin-Hayter; 19. Freestanding towers in the countryside of Rhodes P. W. Lock; 20. The Campanopetra re-considered: the pilgrimage church of the Apostle Barnabas? A. Megaw; 21. The travels of Paul Lucas Lynn Rodley; 22. Aristocrats and aliens in early Byzantine Constantinople Peter Sarris.