Roland Betancourt is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine, where he has been awarded the distinction of Chancellor's Fellow from 2019-2022. Previously, he was the Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His published books include Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium (Cambridge, 2018) and Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages (2020). His ongoing work focuses on Byzantine temporality and simulacral spaces, past and present.

• Introduction; Part I. The Lectionary: Image and Text: 1. Beginnings and Initials: Text, Image, and Sound; 2. Miniatures and Marginalia: A Visual Grammar and Syntax; 3. Faltering Images: Iconography between Reading, Error, and Confusion; Part II. The Liturgy: Sound and Architecture: 4. The Reading of the Lectionary: Recitation, Inspiration, and Embodiment; 5. The Sound of the Lectionary: Chant, Architecture, and Salvation; 6. Polyvalent Images: Iconography between Image, Space, and Sound; Epilogue.

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Roland Betancourt is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine, where he has been awarded the distinction of Chancellor's Fellow from 2019-2022. Previously, he was the Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His published books include Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium (Cambridge, 2018) and Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages (2020). His ongoing work focuses on Byzantine temporality and simulacral spaces, past and present.

• Introduction; Part I. The Lectionary: Image and Text: 1. Beginnings and Initials: Text, Image, and Sound; 2. Miniatures and Marginalia: A Visual Grammar and Syntax; 3. Faltering Images: Iconography between Reading, Error, and Confusion; Part II. The Liturgy: Sound and Architecture: 4. The Reading of the Lectionary: Recitation, Inspiration, and Embodiment; 5. The Sound of the Lectionary: Chant, Architecture, and Salvation; 6. Polyvalent Images: Iconography between Image, Space, and Sound; Epilogue.

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Roland Betancourt is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine, where he has been awarded the distinction of Chancellor's Fellow from 2019-2022. Previously, he was the Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His published books include Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium (Cambridge, 2018) and Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages (2020). His ongoing work focuses on Byzantine temporality and simulacral spaces, past and present.

• Introduction; Part I. The Lectionary: Image and Text: 1. Beginnings and Initials: Text, Image, and Sound; 2. Miniatures and Marginalia: A Visual Grammar and Syntax; 3. Faltering Images: Iconography between Reading, Error, and Confusion; Part II. The Liturgy: Sound and Architecture: 4. The Reading of the Lectionary: Recitation, Inspiration, and Embodiment; 5. The Sound of the Lectionary: Chant, Architecture, and Salvation; 6. Polyvalent Images: Iconography between Image, Space, and Sound; Epilogue.

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