Foreword / Preface / Perceptions of Byzantium / Byzantine monasticism and the liturgical arts / Panagiarion of Alexios Komnenos Angelos and middle Byzantine painting / On the symbolism of classical antique images in middle Byzantine art : a cameo with a mythological subject / state of research on the monomachos crown and some further thoughts / Artukid bowl : courtly art in the middle Byzantine period and its relation to the Islamic East / icon of Saint George, with scenes from his life, from the town of Mariupol' / earliest surviving icons from Bulgaria / Between Byzantium and Rome : manuscripts from southern Italy / Church architecture in Greece during the middle Byzantine period / Nubia, Egypt, and Byzantium / history of Georgian-Byzantine relations / Georgia and the Byzantine world : artistic aspects