I. Why Images? The "Clash of the Gods" between the 1^st and 3^rd Centuries

II. The Emperor Constantine and the Conversion of Rome in the 4^th and 5^th Century

III. Art, Architecture and Civic Ritual in Constantinople, the "New Rome"

IV. The Glorification of the Word: Book Illustration in the 5^th and 6^th Centuries

V. Baptism, Burial and the Afterlife: The Architecture and Mosaics of Ravenna from Galla Placidia to Theodoric

VI. Art, Architecture and Imperial Ritual in Constantinople during the Reign of Justinian

VII. Justinianic Art in Ravenna: Ritual and Politics

VIII. Seeing is believing: The "Loca Sancta" and the Arts of Pilgrimage

IX. Liturgy, Display and Ideology: Ivories and Silver Vessels of the Sixth and Seventh Centuries

X. Material Culture from Early Byzantine Egypt: Textiles, Amulets and Magic

XI. Likeness and Presence: Portrait Icons before Iconoclasm

XII. Iconoclasm, the Cult and Theory of Holy Images

XIII. The Macedonian "Renaissance:" Court Art and Ideology

XIV. "Icons in Space:" Middle Byzantine Church Decoration

XV. Middle Byzantine Programmes in Foreign Courts

XVI. Crusader Art and Multiculturalism

XVII. The Shroud of Turin and Liturgical Images of the Passion

XVIII. The Palaeologan Renaissance and the Collapse of the Empire