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Index
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Editors’ preface
Opening Address
PART I: After Late Antiquity: traditions and transitions
1. The process of ‘Byzantinization’ in late antique epigraphy
2. Village churches and donors at the end of Antiquity
3. Reading, viewing and inscribing faith: Christian epigraphy in the early Umayyad Levant
4. The epigraphy of the Abgar Story: traditions and transitions
PART II: Legibility and readability
5. Inscriptions and the Byzantine beholder: the perception of script
6. Non-exposed funerary inscriptions and the cult of the cross between Italy and Byzantium, 6th–9th centuries
PART III: Church and state
7. The house of inscriptions: the epigraphic world of the middle Byzantine church
8. State, strategy, and ideology in monumental imperial inscriptions
9. Inscriptions of church and state officials on Byzantine lead seals
PART IV: Formal and informal inscriptions in Athens
10. The (in)formality of the inscribed word at the Parthenon: Legibility, script, content
11. Byzantine funerary inscriptions on the Hephaisteion (Church of St George) in the Athenian Agora
PART V: Objects, texts and images
12. Towards a typology for the placement of names on works of art
13. Word of image: textual frames of early Byzantine icons
14. Short texts on small objects: the poetics of the Byzantine enkolpion
PART VI: Case studies
15. A Byzantine verse inscription from Konya
16. The church of Sts Theodoroi (formerly St Kournatos) in Myrtia, Laconia, and its inscriptions
17. A Lombard epigram in Greek
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