Robin Cormack, Elizabeth Jeffreys

• Contents: Introduction, Robin Cormack; Section I: Encounters with places: Byzantine ’purple’ and Ruskin’s St Mark’s, Venice, Michael Wheeler; Twin reflections of a Byzantine city: Monembasia as seen by Robert Weir Schultz and Sidney H. Barnsley in 1890, Haris Kalligas; The great palace dig: the Scottish perspective, Mary Whitby; The British contribution to fieldwork in Byzantine studies in the twentieth century: an introductory survey, David Winfield; Section II: Encounters with books: The distorting mirror: reflections on the Queen Melisende Psalter, Barbara Zeitler; Byzantium perceived through illuminated manuscripts: now and then, John Lowden; From Britain to Byzantium: the study of Greek manuscripts, Patricia Easterling; Greek scribes in England: the evidence of episcopal registers, Jonathan Harris; Fair exchange? Old manuscripts for new printed books, Colin Davey; The Gospels of Jakov of Serres, the Family Brankovic and the Monastery of Saint Paul on Mount Athos, Zaga Gavrilovic; Section III: Interpreters: ’A gentleman’s book’: attitudes of Robert Curzon, Robin Cormack; Bury, Baynes and Toynbee, Averil Cameron; O. M. Dalton: ’ploughing the Byzantine furrow’, Christopher Entwistle; R.M. Dawkins and Byzantium, Peter Mackridge; Section IV: Other perspectives: Du Cange and Byzantium, Jean-Michel Spieser; Pyotr Ivanovich Sevastianov and his activity in collecting Byzantine objects in Russia, Olga Etinhof; Section V: Encounters with the imagined Byzantium: Simpering Byzantines, Grecian goldsmiths et al.: some appearances of Byzantium in English poetry, David Ricks; ’As the actress said to the bishop...’: the portrayal of Byzantine women in English-language fiction, Liz James; Index.

'The essays do indeed provide a worthwhile perspective on aesthetics, and I recommend them to all medieval architecture historians... Books like these help us to be constructively self-conscious.' Aurora

Robin Cormack, Elizabeth Jeffreys

• Contents: Introduction, Robin Cormack; Section I: Encounters with places: Byzantine ’purple’ and Ruskin’s St Mark’s, Venice, Michael Wheeler; Twin reflections of a Byzantine city: Monembasia as seen by Robert Weir Schultz and Sidney H. Barnsley in 1890, Haris Kalligas; The great palace dig: the Scottish perspective, Mary Whitby; The British contribution to fieldwork in Byzantine studies in the twentieth century: an introductory survey, David Winfield; Section II: Encounters with books: The distorting mirror: reflections on the Queen Melisende Psalter, Barbara Zeitler; Byzantium perceived through illuminated manuscripts: now and then, John Lowden; From Britain to Byzantium: the study of Greek manuscripts, Patricia Easterling; Greek scribes in England: the evidence of episcopal registers, Jonathan Harris; Fair exchange? Old manuscripts for new printed books, Colin Davey; The Gospels of Jakov of Serres, the Family Brankovic and the Monastery of Saint Paul on Mount Athos, Zaga Gavrilovic; Section III: Interpreters: ’A gentleman’s book’: attitudes of Robert Curzon, Robin Cormack; Bury, Baynes and Toynbee, Averil Cameron; O. M. Dalton: ’ploughing the Byzantine furrow’, Christopher Entwistle; R.M. Dawkins and Byzantium, Peter Mackridge; Section IV: Other perspectives: Du Cange and Byzantium, Jean-Michel Spieser; Pyotr Ivanovich Sevastianov and his activity in collecting Byzantine objects in Russia, Olga Etinhof; Section V: Encounters with the imagined Byzantium: Simpering Byzantines, Grecian goldsmiths et al.: some appearances of Byzantium in English poetry, David Ricks; ’As the actress said to the bishop...’: the portrayal of Byzantine women in English-language fiction, Liz James; Index.

'The essays do indeed provide a worthwhile perspective on aesthetics, and I recommend them to all medieval architecture historians... Books like these help us to be constructively self-conscious.' Aurora

Robin Cormack, Elizabeth Jeffreys

• Contents: Introduction, Robin Cormack; Section I: Encounters with places: Byzantine ’purple’ and Ruskin’s St Mark’s, Venice, Michael Wheeler; Twin reflections of a Byzantine city: Monembasia as seen by Robert Weir Schultz and Sidney H. Barnsley in 1890, Haris Kalligas; The great palace dig: the Scottish perspective, Mary Whitby; The British contribution to fieldwork in Byzantine studies in the twentieth century: an introductory survey, David Winfield; Section II: Encounters with books: The distorting mirror: reflections on the Queen Melisende Psalter, Barbara Zeitler; Byzantium perceived through illuminated manuscripts: now and then, John Lowden; From Britain to Byzantium: the study of Greek manuscripts, Patricia Easterling; Greek scribes in England: the evidence of episcopal registers, Jonathan Harris; Fair exchange? Old manuscripts for new printed books, Colin Davey; The Gospels of Jakov of Serres, the Family Brankovic and the Monastery of Saint Paul on Mount Athos, Zaga Gavrilovic; Section III: Interpreters: ’A gentleman’s book’: attitudes of Robert Curzon, Robin Cormack; Bury, Baynes and Toynbee, Averil Cameron; O. M. Dalton: ’ploughing the Byzantine furrow’, Christopher Entwistle; R.M. Dawkins and Byzantium, Peter Mackridge; Section IV: Other perspectives: Du Cange and Byzantium, Jean-Michel Spieser; Pyotr Ivanovich Sevastianov and his activity in collecting Byzantine objects in Russia, Olga Etinhof; Section V: Encounters with the imagined Byzantium: Simpering Byzantines, Grecian goldsmiths et al.: some appearances of Byzantium in English poetry, David Ricks; ’As the actress said to the bishop...’: the portrayal of Byzantine women in English-language fiction, Liz James; Index.

'The essays do indeed provide a worthwhile perspective on aesthetics, and I recommend them to all medieval architecture historians... Books like these help us to be constructively self-conscious.' Aurora