Table of Contents

Keynote essays: the empire in East and West, Professor Evangelos Chyros; otium et Negotium - the great estates, Professor Javier Arce; barbarian successor state, Professor Walter Pohl; wealth and treasure, Professor Max Martin; routes of change - production and distribution, Professor Stephane Lebecq; death and burial, Professor Alain Dierkens and Dr Patrick Perin; cult and worship, Professor Averil Cameron; transmission of ideas, Professor Ian Wood. Exhibition essays and summary catalogues of exhibitions: from the Elysian Fields to the Christian paradise, Thessaloniki; death on the Rhine, Cologne; lifestyle of an early Medieval elite, Leiden; firebed of the serpent - iconography of the Nordic relief brooches, Stockholm; heirs of the British Museum.