Byzantine Religious Culture: Studies in Honor of Alice Mary Talbot

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.
Contributors are Alexander Alexakis, Simon Bendall, Annemarie Weyl Carr, John Duffy, Stephanos Efthymiadis, Elizabeth A. Fisher, Jaroslav Folda, Sharon E. J. Gerstel, Michael Grünbart, Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Angela Constantinides Hero, Michel Kaplan, Paul Magdalino, Henry Maguire, Maria Mavroudi, Stamatina McGrath, Cécile Morrisson, John Nesbitt, Arietta Papaconstantinou, Stratis Papaioannou, Manolis Patedakis, Brigitte Pitarakis, Claudia Rapp, Nancy Patterson Sevčenko, Brooke Shilling, Paul Stephenson and Denis Sullivan.

Denis Sullivan, Ph.D. (1972) Classical Philology, University of North Carolina, Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Maryland. His publications include The Life of St. Nikon, Siegecraft: Two Tenth-Century Instructional Manuals, and, with Alice-Mary Talbot, The History of Leo the Deacon.
Elizabeth A. Fisher, Ph.D. (1972) in Classical Philology, Harvard University, is Professor of Classics at George Washington University and editor of Michaelis Pselli Orationes hagiographicae (Teubner 1994). She is currently working on Greek translators’ prefaces.
Stratis Papaioannou, Ph.D. (2000) in Byzantine Studies, University of Vienna, is Associate Professor of Classics at Brown University. His book Michael Psellos, Rhetoric and Authorship in Byzantium will appear at Cambridge University Press.