Byzantine religious culture : studies in honor of Alice-Mary Talbot /

Includes bibliographical references and index.Includes the 'Despised Woman' : Jacob of Serug at the Nativity feast / Susan Ashbook Harvey -- A meeting of Hypatia of Alexandria with St. Febronia of Nisibis in the Life of Sts. David, Symeon and George of Lesbos / Alexander Alexakis -- Une hôtesse importante de l'église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de l'Oxeia à Constantinople : Fébronie / Michel Kaplan -- Learned women of Byzantium and the surviving record / Maria Mavroudi -- Women in Byzantine history in the tenth and eleventh centuries : some theoretical considerations / Stamatina McGrath -- Anna Komnene's will / Stratis Papaioannou -- The matter of the Word in an icon in Houston / Annemarie Weyl Carr -- The other image at the palace gate and the visual propaganda of Leo III / Paul Magdalino -- Sacred objects with Holy Light : Byzantine icons with Chrysography / Jaroslav Folda -- 'Tiles of Nicomedia' and the cult of Saint Panteleimon / Sharon E.J. Gerstel --^Michael Psellos on the 'usual' miracle at Blachernae, the law, and neoplatonism / Elizabeth A. Fisher -- "Pangs of labor without pain" : observations on the iconography of the Nativity in Byzantium / Henry Maguire -- Byzantine 'medals' : coins, amulets, and piety / Cécile Morrisson and Simon Bendall -- New evidence on lead flasks and devotional patterns : from Crusader Jerusalem to Byzantium / Brigitte Pitarakis -- The Posthumous miracles of St. Eustratios on a Sinai Templon beam / Nancy Patterson Ševčenko -- Hagiography and the cult of the saints in light of epigraphy and acclamations / Claudia Rapp -- The jewish boy legend and the 'Western Twist' / John Duffy -- Saints and saracens : on some miracle accounts of the early Arab period / Arietta Papaconstantinou -- The monastery of Diomedes / John W. Nesbitt -- Les saints d'Italie méridionale (IXe-XIIe s.) et leur rôle dans la société locale / Stéphanos Efthymiades --^Zur Memorialkultur in byzantinischen Mittelalter / Michael Grünbart -- Siege warfare, Nikephoros II Phokas, relics and personal piety / Denis F. Sullivan -- An anonymous narrative of the martyrdom of the Anchorites of Mount Sinai (BHG 307d) / Angela Constantinides Hero -- Nicholas the monk and former soldier / Paul Stephenson and Brooke Shilling -- The testament of the patriarch Athanasios I of Constantinople (1289-93, 1303-09) Manolis S. Patedakis