LIST OF PLATES
1. Silver plate depicting Theodosius the Great ( Board of Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum)
2. Vandal noble leaving his villa, mosaic c. 500 ( British Museum)
3. Mosaic from the Church of St Sophia, Constantinople (Courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks, Center for Byzantine Studies, Washington, D.C.)
4. Tomb of St Agilbert, Jouarre (Lauros-Giraudon, Paris)
5. Interior of the Palace Chapel, Aachen, 790s ( Ann Münchow)
6. Reconstruction of the Abbey of Cluny ( Medieval Academy of America from K. J. Conant 'Cluny' and by permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library)
7. Bronze column (c. 1015-22) depicting scenes from the life of Christ ( Conway Library, Courtauld Institute of Art)
8. Thirteenth-centurysgraffito ceramic dish ( British Museum)
9. Crusader castle (Direction Générale du Service des Antiquités, Damascus)
10. Venetian merchants (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris)
11. by Sandro Botticelli now in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence (Scala, Florence)
12. The Temptation of Christ on the Mountain from Duccio's Maestà ( 1308-11), altar-piece for the Cathedral of Siena (© the Frick Collection, New York)
13. Miniature showing the burial of plague victims (Bibliothèque Royale, Bruxelles)
14. Altar-piece ( 1436) by Jan van Eyck (Stedelijke Musea, Brugge)

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