Preface Finding meaning in images, objects and buildings ''You just have to look closer'': a partial biography of John Burnett Mitchell- Elizabeth Mitchell Flower Power: the Garland as a Floating Signifier - Jane Chick Hexapteryga: The Versatile Deacons of Byzantine Cyprus - Richard Maguire Selecting, Arranging, Dressing and Aging the Saints in S. Apollinare Nuovo - Bryan Ward-Perkins The Church of San Zeno at Bardolino, the ''Carolingian Renaissance'', and the Sources for Simulated Architecture in ''Court School'' Manuscripts - John Osborne Trittico Siciliano. 3. Il ''modello inglese'' nei codici da Messina della Biblioteca Nazionale di Madrid (ed altri) - Valentino Pace Diasporic artefacts re-connected: the case for St John and the Sea - T. A. (Sandy) Heslop Under Construction: On Two Twelfth-Century Images of Book Production - Beatrice Kitzinger The Triumph of Earsham - Paul Williamson Michelangelo and Spolia - Joseph Connors The Past and the Palette: Art, Archaeology, and the ''Plausible Realities'' of the 17th-Century Dutch Republic - James Symonds Connoisseurs and Antiquaries, or early histories of caricature in Britain - Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius Victorian and Edwardian House Names in Southeast England, or Queen Victoria in Bungay. A Preliminary Study - Stefan Muthesius Small finds: the point of the needle - Victoria Mitchell From Combs to Churches: The Archaeology of Northern Europe From Roman Town to Anglo-Saxon Church: the origins of St Edmund''s at Caistor-by-Norwich - Will Bowden Ever decreasing circles and other pictorial mysteries at Tintagel, Cornwall - Jacqueline Nowakowski Combs, Beads and Protection: Grave 210 from Eriswell, Suffolk - Ian Riddler Voyager et échanger entre les VIIeet XIesiècles : des objets francs en Angleterre / des objets anglo-saxons en Francie - Amélie Berthon A ''new'' Virgin Mary in Mercia: ThePlatytera at Deerhurst (Gloucs.) - Francesca Dell''Acqua The Sheffield Cross - biography and significance - John Moreland Status and planning of architectural groups in early medieval England - Anastasia Moskvina Urban parish churches dedicated to St Cuthbert in eastern and northern England: exploration of a curious phenomenon - Brian Ayers Exploring the Archaeology of the Mediterranean and Middle East Aphrodite Anadyomene: A Roman hairpin (acus crinalis) finial from the Roman Forum at Butrint - David R.
Hernandez Is it ''a kind of magic''? A bronze magic nail from the environs of Sofiana (central-southern Sicily) in its archaeological context - Emanuele Vaccaro Soft stone items found in Yughbi, a site of the early Islamic period in Qatar - José C. Carvajal López The Ninth-Century Monastic Treasury at San Vincenzo al Volturno? - Richard Hodges The Octopus that turned into a Flounder and two Eels - The story of the Vrina Plain Basilica mosaic - Simon Greenslade andSarah Leppard Bombs, Beer, or Body Lotion? New Light on an Enigma in Islamic Archaeology - Joanita Vroom Elementary, Mitchell: the Lombards, Anselm of Nonantola and the invention of mortadella.- Cesare Poppi Not just for decoration. The ceramics on the bell tower of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome - Sauro Gelichi Full Circle: Recollections and Reflections of Herbert Samuel Toms and the Pitt-Rivers way of Archaeology - Oliver Gilkes An archon''s tower at Middle Byzantine Sopot, southern Albania - Nevila Molla Reflections From Correctness to Communities of Friends: aesthetics and the end of getting art right at the origins of modern art criticism, or, chapter 1 of an unwritten history of art criticism - Sam Rose Behind Closed Doors: Transparency and Legitimacy in Public Policy Making - Polly Mitchell Three historical oddities: the fall of the Roman Empire in AD 476, the year zero at the BC/AD divide, and the continent of Europe - Eric Fernie What John Mitchell doesn''t know about Bells - Elisabeth de Bièvre and John Onians.