Product Description: Individual essays discuss Byzantine conceptions of paradise, the textual evidence for monastic horticulture, animal and game parks, herbs in medicinal pharmacy, and the famous illustrated copy of Dioskorides's herbal manual in Vienna...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Written primarily in Greek, 1985 edition.

Product Description: The emperor Julian once claimed that of all things innovation was what he most abhored; the fifteen papers collected in this volume attempt to reveal various strands of innovation in Byzantine arts. Contributors include: A Kazhdan (Innovation in Byzantium); R Browning (Tradition and originality in literary criticism and scholarship); G Kustas (Rhetoric and the Holy Spirit); M Mullett (Originality in the Byzantine letter); S Runciman (Historiography); M Cunningham (Innovation or mimesis in Byzantine sermons); R Beaton (Epic and romance in the 12th century); E Fisher (The Greek version of Ovid's Amatory Poems); H Maguire (Originality in Byzantine art criticism); A W Carr (Originality and the icon); T Gouma-Peterson (Originality in Byzantine religious paitings); L Brubaker (Originality in Byzantine manuscript illsutration); R Ousterhout (Beyond Hagia Sophia); M Velimirovic (Originality and innovation in Byzantine music); A Cutler (Originality as a cultural phenomenon)...read more