Colours, Symbols, Worship

Preface|The Byzantine Illuminated Manuscript, the Artist's offering to God|The Portraits of St. Athanasios of Athos|The Mother of God of the Kanikleion|The Mother of God, Stabbed with a knife|A Question of Mariolatry in Byzantium|An Icon with Saints in the National Gallery of Canada|Mary's Descent into Hell|A Note on the Psalter Oxford, Christ Church Arch. W. Gr. 61|Majestas Mariae in Late Greek and Russian Icons|Two Icons of St. Theodosia at Sinai|The Stars of the Virgin. An ekphrasis of an icon of the Mother of God|Some Aspects of Symbolic Use of Lights in the Eastern Church. Candles, Lamps and Ostrich Eggs|The Cross in the Book of Ceremonies By Constantine Porphyrogenitus|The Role of the Illuminated Byzantine Manuscript in the Divine Liturgy|A Bread Stamp from Sinai and its Relatives|An Eucharistic Bread Stamp in Mainz|An Icon with the Epinikios Hymn in the Benaki Museum|Observations on the Iconography of a Faras "Majestas" and its Relatives|Sinaitic Manuscripts in the time of the Arabs|The Illumination of Manuscripts in the 10th Century|The Constantinopolitan Lectionary in the Great Lavra, Mt. Athos "embellished" by the Wallachian Voevods|East and West in an Illustrated Manuscript at Sinai|A Constantinopolitan Scribe in the Court of Pope Martin IV|Aspects of Book Illumination of Mt. Athos|Problems in the Illustration of the Gospel-Lessons in the Early Lectionaries of the Monastery of the Great Lavra, Mt. Athos|The Symbolism of the imperial Costume as Displayed on Coins|Style as an approach to the Holy in Byzantine Coins|Alexander the Great, Conqueror and Captive of Death: His various images in Byzantine Art|Expressions of Monasticism in the Illuminated Byzantine Manuscripts|El Greco's Image of St. Francis of Assisi|The Icon, God's Birthmark in Rainer Maria Rilke's 'Prayers'|Constantinople-Moscow-Munich, Byzantium and Twentieth Century European Painting|Additional Notes|Index|Plates