Byzantine Things in the World

Foreword / Josef Helfenstein -- Acknowledgements / Glenn Peters -- Introduction / Glenn Peters -- Glossary -- Byzantine things in the World / Glenn Peters -- Base material / Caitlin Haskell -- Thingliness / Charles Barber -- Tokens touched and touching / Shannon Steiner -- Animal / Glenn Peters -- The Virgin Mary and the duck: mediating divinity and nature in a double-sided Byzantine medallion / Robin K. Williams -- On knowing an object / Richard Shiff -- Resistant surfaces / Susan Sutton -- Manifold marina / James Rodriguez -- Face / Glenn Peters -- Unhinged: the emancipated icon and the suprasensual encounter / Stephen Caffey -- Mystery of vision / Glenn Peters -- Partial transmission / Henri Franses.