Approaches to Byzantine Architecture and its Decoration. Studies in Honor of Slobodan Ćurčić

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MARK J. JOHNSON, AMY PAPALEXANDROU. Approaches to Byzantine Architecture and its Decoration. Studies in Honor of Slobodan Ćurčić,  Routledge, 2012, 336 p.
ISBN: 978-1409427407

SVETLANA POPOVIĆ: A Tribute to Slobodan Ćurčić, Scholar and Friend.
MARK J. JOHNSON, ROBERT OUSTERHOUT, AND AMY PAPALEXANDROU: Introduction: Approaches to Byzantine Architecture and the Contribution of Slobodan Ćurčić.

Part I: The Meanings of Architecture

AMY PAPALEXANDROU: Polis/Arsinoë in Late Antiquity: A Cypriot Town and its Sacred Sites.
LUDOVICO V. GEYMONAT: The Syntax of Spolia in Byzantine Thessalonike.
MARK J. JOHNSON: Church Building and Miracles in Norman Italy: Texts and Topoi.
CHRISTINA MARANCI: Armenia and the Borders of Medieval Art.

Part II: The Fabrics of Buildings

MARINA MIHALJEVIĆ: Change in Byzantine Architecture.
IDA SINKEVIĆ: Prolegomena for a Study of Royal Entrances in Byzantine Churches: The Case of Marko’s Monastery.
JELENA TRKULJA: The Rose Window: A Feature of Byzantine Architecture?

Part III: The Contexts and Contents of Buildings

NIKOLAS BAKIRTZIS: Between the Mountain and the Lake: Tower, Folklore, and the Monastery at Agios Vasileios near Thessalonike.
JELENA BOGDANOVIĆ: Life in a Late Byzantine Tower: Examples from Northern Greece.
KATHERINE MARSENGILL: Imperial and Aristocratic Funerary Panel Portraits in the Middle and Late Byzantine Periods.
MATTHEW J. MILLINER: Man or Metaphor? Manuel Panselinos and the Protaton Frescoes.

Part IV: The Afterlife of Buildings

ROBERT OUSTERHOUT: Two Byzantine Churches of Silivri/Selymbria.
NICOLA CAMERLENGHI: Interpreting Medieval Architecture through Renovations: The Roof of the Old Basilica of San Paolo fuori le Mura in Rome.
ASEN KIRIN: The Edifices of the New Justinian: Catherine the Great Regaining Byzantium.