Glenn Peers is professor in the Department of Art and Music Histories at Syracuse University and professor emeritus in the Department of the History of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. He curated "Byzantine Things in the World" at The Menil Collection (Houston, TX) in 2013.

• IntroductionPart 1. Animate Materialities from Icon to CathedralChapter 1. Showing Byzantine MaterialityChapter 2. The Byzantine Material Symphony: Sound, Stuff, and ThingsPart 2. Byzantine Things in the World: Animating Museum SpacesChapter 3. Prelude on Transfiguring ExhibitionChapter 4. Transfiguring Materialities: Relational Abstraction in Byzantium and Its ExhibitionChapter 5. Framing and Conserving Byzantine Art: Experiences of Relative IdentityPart 3. Pushing the Envelope, Breaking Out: Making, Materials, MaterialityChapter 6. Angelic Anagogy, Silver, and Matter’s MireChapter 7. Late Antique Making and WonderChapter 8. Senses’ Other SidesEpilogueBibliographyIndex

Glenn Peers is professor in the Department of Art and Music Histories at Syracuse University and professor emeritus in the Department of the History of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. He curated "Byzantine Things in the World" at The Menil Collection (Houston, TX) in 2013.

• IntroductionPart 1. Animate Materialities from Icon to CathedralChapter 1. Showing Byzantine MaterialityChapter 2. The Byzantine Material Symphony: Sound, Stuff, and ThingsPart 2. Byzantine Things in the World: Animating Museum SpacesChapter 3. Prelude on Transfiguring ExhibitionChapter 4. Transfiguring Materialities: Relational Abstraction in Byzantium and Its ExhibitionChapter 5. Framing and Conserving Byzantine Art: Experiences of Relative IdentityPart 3. Pushing the Envelope, Breaking Out: Making, Materials, MaterialityChapter 6. Angelic Anagogy, Silver, and Matter’s MireChapter 7. Late Antique Making and WonderChapter 8. Senses’ Other SidesEpilogueBibliographyIndex

Glenn Peers is professor in the Department of Art and Music Histories at Syracuse University and professor emeritus in the Department of the History of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. He curated "Byzantine Things in the World" at The Menil Collection (Houston, TX) in 2013.

• IntroductionPart 1. Animate Materialities from Icon to CathedralChapter 1. Showing Byzantine MaterialityChapter 2. The Byzantine Material Symphony: Sound, Stuff, and ThingsPart 2. Byzantine Things in the World: Animating Museum SpacesChapter 3. Prelude on Transfiguring ExhibitionChapter 4. Transfiguring Materialities: Relational Abstraction in Byzantium and Its ExhibitionChapter 5. Framing and Conserving Byzantine Art: Experiences of Relative IdentityPart 3. Pushing the Envelope, Breaking Out: Making, Materials, MaterialityChapter 6. Angelic Anagogy, Silver, and Matter’s MireChapter 7. Late Antique Making and WonderChapter 8. Senses’ Other SidesEpilogueBibliographyIndex