Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1 Faith and Spirituality -- 1 Thomasine Metamorphosis: Community, Text and Transmission from Greek to Coptic -- David W. Kim -- 2 St Michael of Chonai and the Tenacity of Paganism -- Alan Cadwallader -- Part 2 Chivalry -- 3 The Cultural Repository of Persian Sufism: Medieval Chivalry and Mysticism in Iran -- Milad Milani -- 4 From Knight to Chevalier: Chivalry in the chanson de geste Material from Aquitaine to Germany -- Stephanie L. Hathaway -- Part 3 Love and Literature -- 5 Humour and Sexuality: Twelfth-century Troubadours and Medieval Arabic Poetry -- Jerónimo Méndez -- 6 Ladies, Lovers and Lais: A Comparison of some Byzantine Romances with the Anglo-Norman Guigemar -- Andrew Stephenson -- 7 Performance and Reception of Greek Tragedy in the Early Medieval Mediterranean -- Amelia R. Brown -- Part 4 Material Culture -- 8 The Urban Language of Early Constantinople: The Changing Roles of the Arts and Architecture in the Formation of the New Capital and the New Consciousness -- Gordana Fontana-Giusti -- 9 There and Back Again: Cross-cultural Transmission of Clothing and Clothing Terminology -- Timothy Dawson -- Index.