Visualizing Community emphatically succeeds in its ambitious reassessment of Byzantine Cappadocia. This is now the best reference work for the region's famous churches, providing a thorough account of architectural developments complemented by insightful theoretical discussion. The bustling communities that inhabited this bizarre landscape are brought to life as never before. Necessary reading for the Byzantinist, but recommended for all those interested in how we might read the social lives of architectural spaces.

Robert G. Ousterhout. Visualizing Community: Art, Material Culture, and Settlement in Byzantine Cappadocia. Dumbarton Oaks Studies, 46. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Trustees for Harvard University, 2017.

From Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR). Review by Hugh Jeffery, Lincoln College, Oxford