The fourteen essays in this collection demonstrate a wide variety of approaches to the study of Byzantine architecture, a reflection of both newer trends and traditional scholarship in the field. Three papers examine Early Christian monuments, two of which expand the inquiry into their architectural afterlives. Others discuss later monuments in Byzantine territory and monuments in territories related to Byzantium such as Serbia, Armenia, and Norman Italy. No Orthodox Church being complete without interior decoration, two papers discuss issues connected to frescoes in late medieval Balkan churches. Finally, one study investigates the continued influence of Byzantine palace architecture long after the fall of Constantinople.

Contents: A tribute to Slobodan ÿurèiÿ, 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/Arsinoë 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.