Ritual and Art: Byzantine Essays for Christopher Walter

A Festschrift for Christopher Walter featuring studies on ritual and art in the Byzantine church. Subjects include: the Creation of the Marginal Psalter; Early Byzantine enamel in France; Byzantine Imperial Communion Ritual; the miniatures of a palaeologan New Testament at the Hagia Lavra Monastery.

Table of Contents

Foreword;
Christopher Walter: The Scholar;
Christopher Walter: Bibliography; Tabula Gratulatoria;
The Byzantine Imperial Communion Ritual, Robert Taft; An Exhortation by Manuel Philes to Pay Attention, J. A. Muniti;
The Creation of the Marginal Psalter, Jeffrey C. Anderson;
Les divers emplois du mot harmoste dans l’œuvre de Georges Pachymérès, Albert Failler;
Simples remarques sur deux manuscrits byzantins des IXe et Xe siècles, Suzy Dufrenne;
Iconographic Observations of Figural Representation on Zeuxippus Ware, Pamela Armstrong; ‘Early Byzantine’ Enamel in France, David Buckton;
The Miniatures of a Palaeologan New Testament at the Hagia Lavra Monastery near Kalavryta, Panayotis L. Vocotopoulos;
People Get the Heroes and Martyrs they Deserve, Anthony Bryer; St. Catherine of Alexandria and Mount Sinai , Nancy Patterson Ševcenko;
The Narthex as Desert: The Symbolism of the Entrance Space in Orthodox Church Buildings; Georgi Gerov;
Autour d’une inscription métrique et de la représentation des apôtres Pierre et Paul dans une église en Élide, Victoria Kepetzi;
Le rôle de l’hésychasme dans la peinture murale Byzantine du XIVe et XVe siècles, Tania Velmans;
Emperors or Saints? A Note on the Iconography of a Late-Antique Weight, Christopher Entwistle;
Enemy at the Gates: An Alliance Ridiculed. A Contribution to the History of Mentalité of the South Slavs in the Middle Ages, Dušan Korac and Radivoj Radic;
Hymnography and Iconography: Images of Hymnographers in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-century Church Paintings in Bulgaria, Elka Balalova;
List of Contributors;
Index.