Marc D. Lauxtermann, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature, Exeter College, University of Oxford

Ida Toth, University Research Lecturer and Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford

Opening Address;Part 1. After Late Antiquity: Traditions and Transitions; 1. The process of 'Byzantinization' in Late Antique epigraphy; 2. Village churches and donors at the end of Antiquity; 3. Reading, viewing and inscribing faith: Christian epigraphy in the early Umayyad Levant; 4. The epigraphy of the Abgar Story: Traditions and transitions; Part 2. Legibility and Readability; 5. Inscriptions and the Byzantine beholder: The perception of script; 6. Non-exposed funerary inscriptions and the cult of the cross between Italy and Byzantium, 6th-9th c; Part 3. Church and State; 7. The house of inscriptions: The epigraphic world of the middle Byzantine church; 8. State, strategy, and ideology in monumental imperial inscriptions; 9. Inscriptions of church and state officials on Byzantine lead seals; Part 4. Formal and Informal Inscriptions in Athens; 10. The (in)formality of the inscribed word at the Parthenon: Legibility, script, content; 11. Byzantine funerary inscriptions on the Hephaisteion (Church of St George) in the Athenian Agora; Part 5. Objects, Texts and Images; 12. Towards a typology for the placement of names on works of art; 13. Word of image: Textual frames of early Byzantine icons; 14. Short texts on small objects: The poetics of the Byzantine enkolpion; Part 6. Case Studies; 15. A Byzantine verse inscription from Konya; 16. The church of Sts Theodoroi (formerly St Kournatos) in Myrtia, Laconia, and its inscriptions; 17. A Lombard epigram in Greek