The papers in this volume derive from the 29th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies. This was held for the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies in the University of London in March 1995, in order to complement the British Museum exhibition 'Byzantium.

Robin Cormack, Elizabeth Jeffreys

Contents: Introduction, Robin Cormack; Section I: Encounters with places: Byzantine 'purple' and Ruskin's St Mark's, Venice, Michael Wheeler; Twin reflections of a Byzantine city: Monembasia as seen by Robert Weir Schultz and Sidney H. Barnsley in 1890, Haris Kalligas; The great palace dig: the Scottish perspective, Mary Whitby; The British contribution to fieldwork in Byzantine studies in the twentieth century: an introductory survey, David Winfield; Section II: Encounters with books: The distorting mirror: reflections on the Queen Melisende Psalter, Barbara Zeitler; Byzantium perceived through illuminated manuscripts: now and then, John Lowden; From Britain to Byzantium: the study of Greek manuscripts, Patricia Easterling; Greek scribes in England: the evidence of episcopal registers, Jonathan Harris; Fair exchange? Old manuscripts for new printed books, Colin Davey; The Gospels of Jakov of Serres, the Family Brankovic and the Monastery of Saint Paul on Mount Athos, Zaga Gavrilovic; Section III: Interpreters: 'A gentleman's book': attitudes of Robert Curzon, Robin Cormack; Bury, Baynes and Toynbee, Averil Cameron; O. M. Dalton: 'ploughing the Byzantine furrow', Christopher Entwistle; R.M. Dawkins and Byzantium, Peter Mackridge; Section IV: Other perspectives: Du Cange and Byzantium, Jean-Michel Spieser; Pyotr Ivanovich Sevastianov and his activity in collecting Byzantine objects in Russia, Olga Etinhof; Section V: Encounters with the imagined Byzantium: Simpering Byzantines, Grecian goldsmiths et al.: some appearances of Byzantium in English poetry, David Ricks; 'As the actress said to the bishop...': the portrayal of Byzantine women in English-language fiction, Liz James; Index.