Approaches to Byzantine Architecture and its Decoration

Contents: A tribute to Slobodan AureiA|, scholar and friend, Svetlana Popovic; Introduction: approaches to Byzantine architecture and the contribution of Slobodan Curcic, Mark J. Johnson, Robert Ousterhout and Amy Papalexandrou; Part I The Meanings of Architecture: Polis/ArsinoA" in late antiquity: a Cypriot town and its sacred sites, Amy Papalexandrou; The syntax of spolia in Byzantine Thessalonike, Ludovico V. Geymonat; Church building and miracles in Norman Italy: texts and topoi, Mark J. Johnson; Armenia and the borders of medieval art, Christina Maranci. Part II The Fabrics of Buildings: Change in Byzantine architecture, Marina Mihaljevic; Prolegomena for the study of royal entrances in Byzantine churches: the case of Marko's monastery, Ida Sinkevic; The rose window: a feature of Byzantine architecture?, Jelena Trkulja. Part III The Contexts and Contents of Buildings: Between the mountain and the lake: tower, folklore, and monastery at Agios Vasileios near Thessalonike, Nikolas Bakirtzis; Life in a late Byzantine tower: examples from Northern Greece, Jelena Bogdanovic; Imperial and aristocratic funerary panel portraits in the middle and late Byzantine periods, Katherine Marsengill; Man or metaphor? Manuel Panselinos and the Protaton frescoes, Matthew J. Milliner. Part IV The Afterlife of Buildings: Two Byzantine churches of Silivri/Selymbria, Robert Ousterhout; Interpreting medieval architecture through renovations: the roof of the old basilica of San Paolo fuori le Mura in Rome, Nicola Camerlenghi; The edifices of the new Justinian: Catherine the Great regaining Byzantium, Asen Kirin; Bibliography of published writings; Index.