Angeliki E. Laiou, 6 April 1941-11 December 2008 / Cécile Morrisson, Alice-Mary Talbot -- War and diplomacy in Pannonia and the Northwest Balkans during the reign of Justinian : the Gepid threat and imperial response / Alexander Sarantis -- Images of motherhood and self in Byzantine literature / Peter Hatlie -- Liturgy and the illustration of the ninth-century marginal psalters / Maria Evangelatou -- Ivories as pilgrimage art : a new frame for the "frame group" / Henry Maguire -- Tombs and burials in the monastery tou Libos in Constantinople / Vasileios Marinis -- Fieldwork reports. Secord report on the excavation in the monastery of Apa Shenute (Dayr Anba Shinuda) at Suhag / Peter Grossmann, Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, Saad Mohamad Mohamad Osman ; with a contribution by Hans-Christoph Noeske -- To live and die in a turbulent era : bioarchaeological analysis of the Early Byzantine (6th-7th centuries AD) population from Sourtara Galaniou Kozanis (northern Greece) / Chryssi Bourbou -- Study and restoration of the Zeyrek Camii in Istanbul : second report 2001-2005 / Robert Ousterhout, Zeynep Ahunbay, Metin Ahunbay -- Trade and markets in Byzantium : Dumbarton Oaks Symposium, 2-4 May 2008 : [abstract and program].