Contents

pp v-ix

List of Figures

pp x-xi

Notes on Contributors

pp xii-xxii

Series Editor’s Note Charles Barber

pp xxiii-xxiii

Acknowledgments

pp xxiv-xxv

Glossary

pp xxvi-xxx

List of Abbreviations

pp xxxi-xlii

Introduction

pp xliii-lxxv

Part I - Art, Aesthetics, and Literature

pp 1-2

I.1 - Notions of the Image in Later Byzantium Introduction

pp 3-5

I.1.1 - Art and Worship in Komnenian Thought (Dossier)

pp 6-66

I.1.2 - John Zonaras, Theodore Balsamon, and Alexios Aristenos: Twelfth-Century Commentaries on Canons 73 and 82 of the Quinisext Council

pp 67-81

I.1.3 - Theodore Laskaris: Devotion to the Patriarch and the Church

pp 82-89

I.1.4 - John IX Merkouropolos: The Icon of the Theotokos and the Mutilated Hand of St. John of Damascus

pp 90-96

I.1.5 - Ṣalībā ibn Yuḥannā al-Mawṣilī: “Books of Mysteries”/ Asfār al-asrār

pp 97-106

I.2 - Artists and Patrons Introduction

pp 107-112

I.2.1 - Eloquent Hands: Epigrams Featuring Named Artists and the Eulalios Dossier (Twelfth to Fourteenth Century)

pp 113-142

I.2.2 - John Apokaukos: The Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Painter Nicholas from Euripos

pp 143-154

I.2.3 - Excerpt from a Text on The Miracles of St. Photeine

pp 155-161

I.2.4 - Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos: A Miracle about Mosaicists

pp 162-166

I.2.5 - St. Neophytos the Recluse on Visual Art (Dossier)

pp 167-178

I.2.6 - Asinou, Panagia Phorbiotissa (Dossier)

pp 179-198

I.2.7 - The Donors in Panagia tou Arakos, Lagoudera, Cyprus (Dossier)

pp 199-213

I.2.8 - Inscriptions in the Church of the Holy Cross, Pelendri, Cyprus (Dossier)

pp 214-219

I.2.9 - Manuel Straboromanos: Epigrams on the Emperor’s Epanoklivanon

pp 220-226

I.3 - Eikon and Iconography in Art and Literature Introduction

pp 227-229

I.3.1 - Theodore Prodromos: On Three Round Frames with Depictions

pp 230-235

I.3.2 - Theodore Prodromos: On an Icon Bearing a Depiction of Christ

pp 236-241

I.3.3 - Anthologia Marciana: On a Depiction of the Most HolyTheotokos Surrounded by Heaven and Angels

pp 242-245