Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Center For Byzantine Studies, 1980/1981. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. Large quarto volume bound in original green cloth and lettered in gilt at the spine. Contains the following: Hans Belting - An Image and Its Function in the Liturgy / The Man of Sorrows in Byzantium; Anthony Cutler - Liturgical Strata in the Marginal Psalters; Jose Grosdidier De Matons - Liturgie et Huymnographie / Kontakion et Canon; Robert Taft, S.J. - The Liturgy of the Great Church / An Initial Synthesis of Structure and Interpretation on the Eve of Iconoclasm; Doula Mouriki - Stylistic Trends in Monumental Painting of Greece during the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries; Michael D. Taylor - A Historiated Tree of Jesse; Angeliki E. Laiou-Thomadakis - The Byzantine Economy in the MEditerranean Trade System / Thirteenth-Fifteenth Centuries. Then follows a Notes Section: Irfan Shahid - Heraclius (Greek...); Nicolal Oikonomides - St. George of Mangana, Maria Skleraina, and the "Malyj Sion" of Novgorod; James D. Breckenridge - Christ in the Lyre-Backed Throne; Henry Maguire - The Iconography of Symeon with the Christ Child in Byzantine Art; John Meyenforff - Byzantine Liturgy. Report on the Dumbarton Oaks Symposium of 1979. A lovely copy in all respects. Some very minor soiling to the white jacket, else fine. Illustrated throughout.

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