Speculum, volume 98, number 4 (October 2023),

CONTENTS INCLUDE

Jewelry and People in the Byzantine Cemetery of Parapotamos, Epiros
Georgios Makris

Jewelry reflecting the tastes, needs, and practices of past users across all social strata constitutes one of the most representative portable arts in the Middle Ages. Jewelry’s typical lack of iconography or original context has often prevented scholars of Byzantine art from engaging with the medium’s socio-historical value. By bringing together artworks from museum collections and objects found in the cemetery of Parapotamos, in northwestern Greece, this study disentangles medieval jewelry from an inquiry into provenance or the development of fashion and instead situates specific jewels in a discussion about meaning on a social level, in terms of ownership and human behavior in Byzantium and beyond.

Reviews

Peter Adamson, Byzantine and Renaissance Philosophy
Review by Michele Trizio

Emir Alışık, ed., “What Byzantinism Is This in Istanbul!”: Byzantium in Popular Culture
Review by Dimitra Kotoula

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Innovation in Byzantine Medicine: The Writings of John Zacharias Aktouarios (c.1275–c.1330)
Review by Maria Mavroudi

Glenn Peers, Animism, Materiality, and Museums: How Do Byzantine Things Feel?
Myrto Veikou