Introduction: Viewing inscriptions / Antony Eastmond
1. Text, image, memory, and performance : epigraphic practices in Persia and the ancient Iranian world / Matthew P. Canepa
2. Prayers on site : the materiality of devotional graffiti and the production of early Christian sacred space / Ann Marie Yasin
3. Erasure and memory : Aghlabid and Fatimid inscriptions in North Africa / Jonathan Bloom
4. Textual icons : viewing inscriptions in medieval Georgia / Antony Eastmond
5. Pseudo-Arabic "inscriptions" and the pilgrim's path at Hosios Loukas / Alicia Walker
6. Arabic inscriptions in the Cappella Palatina : performativity, audience, legibility, and illegibility / Jeremy Johns
7. Intercession and succession, enlightenment and reflection : the inscriptional and decorative program of the Qaratay Madrasa / Konya Scott Redford
8. Remembering Fernando : multilingualism in medieval Iberia / Tom Nickson
9. Displaying the word : words as visual signs in the Armenian architectural decoration of the monastery of Noravank (fourteenth century) / Ioanna Rapti
10. Written in stone : civic memory and monumental writing in the Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa Stefania Gerevini
11. Place, space, and style : craftsmen's signatures in medieval Islamic art / Sheila S. Blair
Afterword: Re-viewing inscriptions / Antony Eastmond.
Viewing inscriptions in the late antique and medieval world. ISBN 9781107092419. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.