Byzantine Matters

MAPS

Map 1 ■ Justinian’s empire, ca. 565 xvi

Map 2 ■ The Byzantine empire, ca. 1025 xvii

Map 3 ■ Byzantium, ca. 1350 xviii

FIGURES

Figure 1 ■ David Talbot Rice and Mark Ogilvie-Grant on their expedition to Mount Athos with Robert Byron 12

Figure 2 ■ Watercolor of Mount Athos by Edward Lear 19

Figure 3 ■ The cathedral of St. Sophia at Ohrid 37

Figure 4 ■ Ivory comb with jousting scene, tenth century 43

Figure 5 ■ The Parthenon 51

Figure 6 ■ The ruins of Mistra in the Peloponnese 61

Figure 7 ■ Icon of the Archangel Michael, tenth century 72

Figure 8 ■ Male dancers on the lid of a bone casket 81

Figure 9 ■ Icon The Triumph of Orthodoxy, ca. 1400 91

Figure 10 ■ Chrysobull issued in 1342 by the emperor John V Palaeologus 104

Figure 11 ■ Emperor John VI Cantacuzenus (1347–54) surrounded by bishops at the council of 1351 107