Introduction | p. i |
The Byzantine Illuminated Manuscript: An Artist's Offering to God | p. 1 |
The Portraits of St. Athanasius of Athos | p. 14 |
The Mother of God of the Kanikleion | p. 39 |
The Mother of God, 'Stabbed with a Knife' | p. 44 |
A Question of Mariolatry in Byzantium | p. 54 |
'Christ with Saints Alexandra and Agatha': A Russian Icon in the National Gallery of Canada | p. 69 |
Mary's Descent into Hell; A Note on the Psalter Oxford, Christ Church Arch. W. Gr. 61 | p. 94 |
Majestas Mariae in Late Greek and Russian Icons | p. 100 |
Two Icons of St. Theodosia at Sinai | p. 125 |
The Stars of the Virgin. An Ekphrasis of an Icon of the Mother of God | p. 134 |
Some Aspects of the Symbolic Use of Lights in the Eastern Church. Candles, Lamps and Ostrich Eggs | p. 142 |
The Cross in the Book of Ceremonies by Constantine Porphyrogenitus | p. 151 |
The Role of the Illuminated Byzantine Manuscript in the Divine Liturgy | p. 162 |
A Bread Stamp from Sinai and its Relatives | p. 171 |
A Eucharistic Bread Stamp in Mainz | p. 190 |
An Icon with the 'Epinikios' Hymn in the Benaki Museum | p. 205 |
Observations on the Iconography of a Faras 'Majestas' and its Relatives | p. 218 |
'Sinaitic' Manuscripts in the Time of the Arabs | p. 230 |
The Illumination of Manuscripts in the Tenth Century | p. 261 |
A Constantinopolitan Lectionary in the Great Lavra on Mt. Athos 'Embellished' by the Wallachian Veovods | p. 293 |
East and West in an Illustrated Manuscript at Sinai | p. 302 |
A Constantinopolitan Scribe in the Court of Pope Martin IV | p. 332 |
Aspects of Book illumination on Mr. Athos | p. 339 |
Problems in the Illustration of Gospel-Lessons in the Early Lectionaries of the Monastery of the Great Lavra, Mount Athos | p. 359 |
The Symbolism of the Imperial Costume as Displayed on Byzantine Coins | p. 372 |
Style as an Approach to the Holy in Byzantine Coins | p. 396 |
Alexander the Great, Conqueror and Capative of Death: His Various Images in Byzantine Art | p. 412 |
Expressions of Monasticism in Illuminated Byzantine Manuscripts | p. 432 |
El Greco's Image of St. Francis of Assisi | p. 449 |
The Icon, God's Birthmark in Rainer Maria Rilke's 'Prayers' | p. 472 |
Constantinople, Moscow, Munich: Byzantium and Twentieth-Century European Paintings | p. 501 |
Index | p. 527 |
Acknowledgements | p. 573 |
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