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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 Gru¿nbart, Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Angela Constantinides Hero, Michel Kaplan, Paul Magdalino, Henry Maguire, Maria Mavroudi, Stamatina McGrath, Ce¿¿cile Morrisson, John Nesbitt, Arietta Papaconstantinou, Stratis Papaioannou, Manolis Patedakis, Brigitte Pitarakis, Claudia Rapp, Nancy Patterson S¿¿evc¿¿enko, Brooke Shilling, Paul Stephenson and Denis Sullivan.

Preliminary Material -- Including the 'Despised Woman': Jacob of Serug at the Nativity Feast / Susan Ashbrook Harvey -- A Meeting of Hypatia of Alexandria with St. Febronia of Nisibis in the Life of Sts. David, Symeon and George of Lesbos / Alexander Alexakis -- Une hôtesse importante de l'église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de l'Oxeia à Constantinople : Fébronie / Michel Kaplan -- Learned Women of Byzantium and the Surviving Record / Maria Mavroudi -- Women in Byzantine History in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries: Some Theoretical Considerations / Stamatina McGrath -- Anna Komnene's Will / Stratis Papaioannou -- The Matter of the Word in an Icon in Houston / Annemarie Weyl Carr -- The Other Image at the Palace Gate and the Visual Propaganda of Leo III / Paul Magdalino -- Sacred Objects with Holy Light: Byzantine Icons with Chrysography / Jaroslav Folda -- 'Tiles of Nicomedia' and the Cult of Saint Panteleimon / Sharon E. J. Gerstel -- Michael Psellos on the 'Usual' Miracle at Blachernae, the Law, and Neoplatonism / Elizabeth A. Fisher -- "Pangs of Labor without Pain" Observations on the Iconography of the Nativity in Byzantium / Henry Maguire -- Byzantine 'Medals': Coins, Amulets and Piety / Cécile Morrisson and Simon Bendall -- New Evidence on Lead Flasks and Devotional Patterns: From Crusader Jerusalem to Byzantium / Brigitte Pitarakis -- The Posthumous Miracles of St. Eustratios on a Sinai Templon Beam / Nancy Patterson Ševčenko -- Hagiography and the Cult of Saints in the Light of Epigraphy and Acclamations / Claudia Rapp -- The Jewish Boy Legend and the 'Western Twist' / John Duffy -- Saints and Saracens: On Some Miracle Accounts of the Early Arab Period / Arietta Papaconstantinou -- The Monastery of Diomedes / John W. Nesbitt -- Les saints d'Italie méridionale (IXe-XIIe S.) et leur rôle dans la société locale / Stéphanos Efthymiades -- Zur Memorialkultur im byzantinischen Mittelalter / Michael Grünbart -- Siege Warfare, Nikephoros II Phokas, Relics and Personal Piety / Denis F. Sullivan -- An Anonymous Narrative of the Martyrdom of the Anchorites of Mount Sinai (BHG 307D) / Angela Constantinides Hero -- Nicholas the Monk and Former Soldier / Paul Stephenson and Brooke Shilling -- The Testament of the Patriarch Athanasios I of Constantinople (1289-93, 1303-09) / Manolis S. Patedakis -- Index -- Plates.