Cornucopia for a Polymath: Studies in Archaeology, Architecture and Art History for John Burnett Mitchell

Jane Chick is an Associate of the School of History and Art History at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. She has published on late antique mosaics and is Honorary editor of the journal ‘Mosaic’.Richard Hodges is the Emeritus President of The American University of Rome, who has excavated at Butrint, Albania and San Vincenzo al Volturno, Italy, and published on early Medieval economics.Ian Riddler is a material culture specialist who has published widely on objects and waste of antler, bone, horn and ivory of Neolithic to medieval date.

• Preface Finding meaning in images, objects and buildings‘You just have to look closer’: a partial biography of John Burnett Mitchell – Elizabeth MitchellFlower Power: the Garland as a Floating Signifier – Jane ChickHexapteryga: The Versatile Deacons of Byzantine Cyprus – Richard MaguireSelecting, Arranging, Dressing and Aging the Saints in S. Apollinare Nuovo – Bryan Ward-PerkinsThe Church of San Zeno at Bardolino, the ‘Carolingian Renaissance’, and the Sources for Simulated Architecture in ‘Court School’ Manuscripts – John OsborneTrittico Siciliano. 3. Il ‘modello inglese’ nei codici da Messina della Biblioteca Nazionale di Madrid (ed altri) – Valentino PaceDiasporic artefacts re-connected: the case for St John and the Sea – T. A. (Sandy) HeslopUnder Construction: On Two Twelfth-Century Images of Book Production – Beatrice KitzingerThe Triumph of Earsham – Paul WilliamsonMichelangelo and Spolia – Joseph ConnorsThe Past and the Palette: Art, Archaeology, and the ‘Plausible Realities’ of the 17th-Century Dutch Republic – James SymondsConnoisseurs and Antiquaries, or early histories of caricature in Britain – Katarzyna Murawska-MuthesiusVictorian and Edwardian House Names in Southeast England, or Queen Victoria in Bungay. A Preliminary Study – Stefan MuthesiusSmall finds: the point of the needle – Victoria Mitchell  From Combs to Churches: The Archaeology of Northern EuropeFrom Roman Town to Anglo-Saxon Church: the origins of St Edmund’s at Caistor-by-Norwich – Will BowdenEver decreasing circles and other pictorial mysteries at Tintagel, Cornwall – Jacqueline Nowakowski Combs, Beads and Protection: Grave 210 from Eriswell, Suffolk – Ian RiddlerVoyager et échanger entre les VIIe et XIe siècles : des objets francs en Angleterre / des objets anglo-saxons en Francie – Amélie BerthonA ‘new’ Virgin Mary in Mercia: The Platytera at Deerhurst (Gloucs.) – Francesca Dell’AcquaThe Sheffield Cross – biography and significance – John MorelandStatus and planning of architectural groups in early medieval England – Anastasia MoskvinaUrban parish churches dedicated to St Cuthbert in eastern and northern England: exploration of a curious phenomenon – Brian Ayers Exploring the Archaeology of the Mediterranean and Middle East Aphrodite Anadyomene: A Roman hairpin (acus crinalis) finial from the Roman Forum at Butrint – David R. HernandezIs it ‘a kind of magic’? A bronze magic nail from the environs of Sofiana (central-southern Sicily) in its archaeological context – Emanuele VaccaroSoft stone items found in Yughbī, a site of the early Islamic period in Qatar – José C. Carvajal LópezThe Ninth-Century Monastic Treasury at San Vincenzo al Volturno? – Richard HodgesThe Octopus that turned into a Flounder and two Eels – The story of the Vrina Plain Basilica mosaic – Simon Greenslade and Sarah LeppardBombs, Beer, or Body Lotion? New Light on an Enigma in Islamic Archaeology – Joanita VroomElementary, Mitchell: the Lombards, Anselm of Nonantola and the invention of mortadella. – Cesare PoppiNot just for decoration. The ceramics on the bell tower of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome – Sauro GelichiFull Circle: Recollections and Reflections of Herbert Samuel Toms and the Pitt-Rivers way of Archaeology – Oliver GilkesAn archon’s tower at Middle Byzantine Sopot, southern Albania – Nevila Molla ReflectionsFrom Correctness to Communities of Friends: aesthetics and the end of getting art right at the origins of modern art criticism, or, chapter 1 of an unwritten history of art criticism – Sam RoseBehind Closed Doors: Transparency and Legitimacy in Public Policy Making – Polly MitchellThree historical oddities: the fall of the Roman Empire in AD 476, the year zero at the BC/AD divide, and the continent of Europe – Eric FernieWhat John Mitchell doesn’t know about Bells – Elisabeth de Bièvre and John Onians