Contains 17 articles that focus primarily on enamel, the brilliant and colourful art form for which the Byzantines were famous throughout the medieval world. This book includes sculpture and glyptics. It also examines works which have retained the form in which they were first created.

This volume gathers together 17 articles published over the last 30 years, together with one appearing here for the first time. Their focus is primarily on enamel, the brilliant and colourful art form for which the Byzantines were famous throughout the medieval world, but sculpture and glyptics also figure. The author examines not only works which have retained the form in which they were first created, but others which have had their original Byzantine elements re-used, often by artists in the West. While most of the works featured here have been known to scholars before, one was unknown prior to its first publication in 2006.

Preface
Byzantine cloisonne enamel: production, survival and loss
Enamels in the Byzantine world: ownership and distribution
The jewels from the crown: symbol and substance in the later Byzantine imperial regalia
La couronne grecque de la sainte couronne de Hongrie: le contexte de ses emaux et de ses bijoux
Byzantine and Russian enamels in the treasury of Hagia Sophia in the late 14th century
Byzantine enamils on a Venetian book cover
A purchase of Byzantine relics and reliquaries in 14th-century Venice
Vecchi, e non antichi: differing responses to Byzantine culture in 15th-century Tuscany
Studying the Byzantine staurotheque at Esztergom
Byzantine enamels for a Russian prince: the book-cover of the Gospels of Mstislav
The enamels on a mitre from Linkoping cathedral, and art in 13th-century Constantinople
Who is this king of glory? The Byzantine enamels of an icon frame and revetment in Jerusalem
An unknown Byzantine enamel enkolpion of Constantine Proedros
The frame of the Sacro Volto icon in S. Bartolomeo degli Armeni in Genoa: the reliefs and artist: The Byzantine enamels on the staurotheque from the treasury of the Prieure d'Oignies, now at Namur, with an excursus on the association of pearls with Byzantine enamels
The Cross of Zavis and its Byzantine enamels: a contribution to its history
Byzantine steatites in the possession of the Knights of Rhodes
A well-head in Iznik: an example of Laskarid taste?
Addenda
Index.