Publisher's description:
Alice-Mary Talbot has profoundly influenced Byzantine Studies in America and Europe, focusing her scholarship upon the social context of Byzantine religious practices. As Director of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks and as editor of Dumbarton Oaks Papers, she touched the professional lives of senior and junior Byzantinists alike. This collection of twenty-five articles from scholars associated with her at various stages in her career compasses such varied disciplines as art history, social history, literature, epigraphy, numismatics and sigillography; contributions are grouped in three related sections: “Women,” “Icons and Images,” and finally “Texts, Practices, Spaces.” Illustrated with both b/w and color images, the volume is at once a varied and a coherent tribute to this extraordinary scholar.

Table of contents:
XI List of Illustrations
XVII List of Contributors
XXI Introduction
XXXV Publications of Alice-Mary Talbot
XXXV List of Abbreviations
WOMEN
3 Including the 'Despised Woman': Jacob of Serug at the Nativity Feast, Susan Ashbrook Harvey
19 A Meeting of Hypatia of Alexandria with St. Febronia of Nisibis in the Life of Sts. David, Symeon and George of Lesbos, Alexander Alexakis
31 Une hotesse importante de l'eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste de l'Oxeia a Constantinople: Febronie, Michel Kaplan
53 Learned Women of Byzantium and the Surviving Record, Maria Mavroudi
85 Women in Byzantine History in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries: Some Theoretical Considerations, Stamatina McGrath
99 Anna Komnene's Will, Stratis Papaioannou
ICONS AND IMAGES
125 The Matter of the Word in an Icon in Houston, Annemarie Weyl Carr
139 The Other Image at the Palace Gate and the Visual Propaganda of Leo III, Paul Magdalino
155 Sacred Objects with Holy Light: Byzantine Icons with Chrysography, Jaroslav Folda
173 'Tiles of Nicomedia' and the Cult of Saint Panteleimon, Sharon E. J. Gerstel
187 Michael Psellos on the 'Usual' Miracle at Blachernae, the Law, and Neoplatonism, Elizabeth A. Fisher
205 “Pangs of Labor without Pain”: Observations on the Iconography of the Nativity in Byzantium, Henry Maguire
217 Byzantine 'Medals': Coins, Amulets and Piety, Cecile Morrisson and Simon Bendall
239 New Evidence on Lead Flasks and Devotional Patterns: From Crusader Jerusalem to Byzantium, Brigitte Pitarakis
267 The Posthumous Miracles of St. Eustratios on a Sinai Templon Beam, Nancy Patterson Ševčenko
TEXTS, PRACTICES, SPACES
291 Hagiography and the Cult of Saints in the Light of Epigraphy and Acclamations, Claudia Rapp
313 The Jewish Boy Legend and the 'Western Twist', John Duffy
323 Saints and Saracens: On Some Miracle Accounts of the Early Arab Period, Arietta Papaconstantinou
339 The Monastery of Diomedes, John W. Nesbitt
347 Les saints d'Italie méridionale (IXe–XIIe s.) et leur role dans la société locale, Stephanos Efthymiades
373 Zur Memorialkultur im byzantinischen Mittelalter, Michael Grunbart
395 Siege Warfare, Nikephoros II Phokas, Relics and Personal Piety, Denis F. Sullivan
411 An Anonymous Narrative of the Martyrdom of the Anchorites of Mount Sinai (BHG 307d), Angela Constantinides Hero
421 Nicholas the Monk and Former Soldier, Paul Stephenson and Brooke Shilling
439 The Testament of the Patriarch Athanasios I of Constantinople (1289–93, 1303–09), Manolis S. Patedakis
465 Index