Early Byzantine Pilgrimage Art explores the portable artifacts of eastern Mediterranean pilgrimage from the fifth to the seventh century, presenting them in the context of contemporary pilgrims&rsquo
Sacred and Stolen is the memoir of an art museum director with the courage to reveal what goes on behind the scenes. It lays bare the messy part of museums: looted antiquities, crooked dealers, delude
Author Gary Vikan is the former director of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, and a recognized authority on medieval European and Byzantine art. Here, he unexpectedly applies his expertise on relig
The 15 articles of this collection, first published between 1979 and 1998 (most were published in the 1990s), will appeal to scholars of popular religion and medieval Christianity as well as Byzantini
