Byzantine Papers: Proceedings of the First Australian Byzantine Studies Conference Canberra, 17-19 May 1978

Canberra: Humanities Research Centre, 1981. Softcover. VG (light shelfwear, pages are clean and clear.). Tan illustrated wraps, xi, 156 pp; 10 unnumbered pages of bw plates and illustrations. Contents include: Thoughts on some early medieval miracles / John Moorhead -- Malalas and Justinian's codification / Roger Scott -- Theophanes' account of the reign of Heraclius / Jenny Ferber -- Byzantium and the Arabs : the image of the Byzantines as mirrored in Arabic literature / Ahmad Shboul -- Illustrations of the "Triumph" of Joseph the Patriarch / Margaret Riddle -- Anglo-Saxons and the Icelanders at Byzantium, with special reference to the Icelandic saga of St. Edward the Confessor / Leslie Rogers -- Literary evidence for the dating of the Ba kovo ossuary frescoes / Sasha Grishin -- The vernacular eisit rioi for Agnes of France / Michael Jeffreys -- The later Greek verse romances: a survey / Elizabeth Jeffreys -- Bessarion before the Council of Florence: a survey of his early writings (1423-1437) / E.J. Stormon.