Foreword / Angelos Delivorrias
Preface / Evangelos Chrysos
Acknowledgements / Maria Vassilaki
Introduction / Averil Cameron
1. Isis and Mary in early icons / Thomas F. Mathews and Norman Muller
2. enigmatic Coptic Galaktotrophousa and the cult of the Virgin Mary in Egypt / Elizabeth S. Bolman
3. Icons and sites : cult images of the Virgin in medieval Rome / Gerhard Wolf
4. Theotokos and Logos : the interpretation and reinterpretation of the sanctuary programme of the Koimesis Church, Nicaea / Charles Barber
5. Virgin as the true Ark of the Covenant / Michel van Esbroeck
6. Theotokos in Byzantine hymnography : typology and allegory / Christian Hannick
7. Use and abuse of the 'image' of the Theotokos in the political life of Byzantium (with special reference to the iconoclast period) / Nike Koutrakou
8. From poetry to liturgy : the cult of the Virgin in the Middle Byzantine era / Niki Tsironis
9. Exchanging embrace : the body of salvation / Ioli Kalavrezou
10. symbolism of the censer in Byzantine representations of the Dormition of the Virgin / Maria Evangelatou
11. Portaitissa icon at Iveron monastery and the cult of the Virgin on Mount Athos / Kriton Chryssochoidis
12. empress and the Virgin in early Byzantium : piety, authority and devotion / Liz James
13. Female piety in context : understanding developments in private devotional practices / Brigitte Pitarakis
14. eyes of the mother of God / Robin Cormack
15. Zoe's lead seal : female invocation to the Annunciation of the Virgin / Vasso Penna
16. Byzantine domestic art as evidence for the early cult of the Virgin / Henry Maguire
17. 'activated' icon : the Hodegetria procession and Mary's Eisodos / Bissera V. Pentcheva
18. Picturing the spiritual protector : from Blachernitissa to Hodegetria / Christine Angelidi and Titos Papamastorakis
19. image of the Virgin Zoodochos Pege : two questions concerning its origin / Natalia Teteriatnikov
20. cult of the Virgin Zoodochos Pege at Mistra / Rhodoniki Etzeoglou
21. Virgin, the Christ-child and the evil eye / Vassiliki Foskolou
22. Praying for the salvation of the empire? / Maria Vassilaki
23. Thoughts on Mary east and west / Annemarie Weyl Carr
24. Kahn and Mellon Madonnas and their place in the history of the Virgin and child enthroned in Italy and the East / Rebecca W. Corrie
25. Representations of the Virgin in Lusignan Cyprus / Sophia Kalopissi-Verti
26. legacy of the Hodegetria : holy icons and legends between east and west / Michele Bacci
27. Byzantine icon of the dexiokratousa Hodegetria from Crete at the Benaki Museum / Nano Chatzidakis
Epilogue / Maria Vassilaki.
