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

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