Table of Contents

Table of Contents
List of Plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Editors’ Preface / Vorwort der Herausgeber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Aims and Structure of the Conference – Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Proceedings of the Conference
A. Muthesius
Introduction. Studies on Material Culture – Some General Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Conference Papers
Archbishop Damianos of Sinai
The Medical Saints of the Orthodox Church in Byzantine Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
B. K. BjØrnholt – L. James
The Man in the Street: Some Problems of Gender and Identity in Byzantine Material Culture . . . . . 51
H. Buchwald
Byzantine Town planning – does it exist? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
B. Caseau
Incense and Fragrances: from House to Church. A Study of the Introduction of Incense
in the Early Byzantine Christian Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
A. Diamandopoulos
The Effect of Medicine, in particular the Ideas about Renal Diseases, on the “Well-Being”
of Byzantine Citizens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
A. Dunn
Rural Producers and Markets: Aspects of the Archaeological and Historiographic Problem . . . . . . . . 101
G. Egan
Byzantium in London ? New Archaeological Evidence for 11th Century Links between
England and the Byzantine World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
M. Emmanuel
Religious Imagery in Mystra. Donors and Iconographic Programmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
S. Geroulanos
Surgery in Byzantium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
M. Grünbart
Spartans and Sybarites at the Golden Horn. Food as Necessity and/or Luxury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
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Justin (Priestmonk)
Life in the Monastic Community: the Living Tradition of the Desert Fathers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
E. Kislinger
Being and Well-Being in Byzantium: the Case of Beverages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
D. Konstantios
Introduction to Material Culture in the Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
A. Muthesius
Textiles and Dress in Byzantium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
V. Nutton
Galen in Byzantium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
H. Papastavrou
The Byzantine Tradition on the Decoration of a 17th Century Sakkos (Inv. No 754) in the
Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
M. G. Parani
Byzantine Material Culture and Religious Iconography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
B. Popovic
The most Precious Thread in Byzantium and Medieval Serbia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
C. Saliou
The Byzantine House (400–912): Rules and Representations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
L. V. Simeonova
Magic and the Warding-off of Barbarians in Constantinople, 9th–12th Centuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
D. Stathakopoulos
To Have and to Have Not: Supply and Shortage in the Late Antique World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
S. Torallas Tovar
The Terminology of Egyptian Monastic Garments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
J. Shepard
Closing address: “Invisible Byzantiums” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Basic Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241