Summary This book comprises sixteen essays addressing issues of art and architecture together with archaeology within the context of sacred space, broadly defined. It encompasses a wide range of territories, methodologies, perspectives, and scholarly concerns. Our point of departure is the built environment, with all that this entails, including religious and political ceremony, painted interiors, patronage, contested spaces, structural and environmental concerns, sensory properties, the written word as it pertains to architectural projects, and imagined spaces. In all, the scholars involved in this project find fresh approaches and uncover new meanings and interpretations in the material examined within this volume, including buildings and objects from Europe to Asia, and spanning from Late Antiquity through the end of the Middle Ages. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface List of Abbreviations Publications of Robert G. Ousterhout LATE ANTIQUE MANIFESTATIONS 1. Benjamin Anderson, The Forum of Theodosius: Labor and the Gods 2. Anna Sitz, Architectures of Surveillance: Houses and Stylites in the Northern Syrian 'Dead Villages' CONSTRUCTING SANCTITY 3. Amy Papalexandrou, Sacred Sound and the Reflective Cornice 4. Michalis Kappas, Building an Orthodox Monastery in the Frankish Morea: Andromonastiro at Messenia 5. Vasileios Marinis, What Makes a Church Sacred? Symeon of Thessalonike's Commentary on the Rite of Consecration 6. Warren T. Woodfin, Furnishing the Celestial Sanctuary: Painted Architectural Settings for the Communion of the Apostles 7. Eunice Dauterman Maguire & Henry Maguire, 'The Forgotten Symbols of God': Screening Patterns from the Early Christian and Byzantine Worlds 8. Roland Betancourt, Extended in the Imagination: The Representation of Architectural Space in Byzantium THE LEVANT 9. Rory O'Neill, Structural Innovation and Tradition in the Medieval Levant 10. Megan Boomer, 'Architecture as Reliquary': Latin Reconstruction and Rhetoric at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre 11. Charles A. Stewart, Hallowed Halls: Earliest Domed-Hall Churches in Cyprus 12. Jordan Pickett, Conflict Architecture: Making History at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron ANATOLIA AND ARMENIA 13. Suna Ça?aptay, Into the Sacred Space: Facing Ayasoluk and Its Gate of Persecutions 14. Tolga Uyar, Carving, Painting and Inscribing Sacred Space in Late Byzantium: Bezirana Kilisesi Rediscovered (Peristrema-Cappadocia) 15. Fatma Gül Öztürk Büke, Questioning Boundaries in Byzantine Cappadocia: Secular Spaces, Sacred Spaces, and Interfaces In-between 16. Armen Kazaryan, City of Ani. Constructing a Medieval Capital in the Christian Orient List of Contributors