Introduction / Andrea Mattiello and Maria Alessia Rossi
1. 'And the whole city cheered': the poetics and politics of the miraculous in the early Palaiologan period / Niels Gaul
2. Art in decline or art in the age of decline? Historiography and new approaches to late Byzantine painting / Ivana Jevtić
3. The timeliness of timelessness: reconsidering decline in the Palaiologan period / Cecily J. Hilsdale
4. Reconsidering the early Palaiologan period: anti-Latin propaganda, miracle accounts and monument art / Maria Alessia Rossi
5. How to illustrate a scientific treatise in the Palaiologan period / Andrew Griebeler
6. Looking beyond the city walls of Mystras: the transformation of the religious landscape of Laconia / Ludovic Bender
7. Remnants of an era: monasteries and lay piety in Byzantine Sozopolis / Georgios Makris
8. Palaiologan art from regional Crete: artistic decline or social progress? / Angeliki Lymberopoulou
9. Liturgical and devotional artefacts in the Venetian churches of the Levant, thirteenth-fifteenth century / Livia Bevilaqua
10. Who's that man? the perception of Byzantium in fifteenth century Italy / Andrea Mattiello
11. The story behind the image: the literary patronage of Tsar Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria between ostentation and decline / Lilyana Yordanova
12. Imperial portraits of the Grand Komnenoi of Trebizond (1204-1461) / Tatiana Bardashova.