Acknowledgments
This book is the result of collegiate friendship and shared long-term interests in late antique and Byzantine art and architecture. Trained in various disciplines from art history to architectural engineering, we often have to deal with the inconsistency of the terminology we use when discussing various kinds of cross-cultural artistic accomplishments in the wider Mediterranean. Type and Archetype in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture grew out of a panel discussion about typology and meanings of relevant terms. The panel was originally conceived in 2012 and presented within the communication session at the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, held in Belgrade, Serbia, in August 2016. As often happens in academia, while some participants at the conference were not able to continue the pursuit of publication of our deliberations and findings due to family and professional obligations, other contributors became involved. Years later, at the moment when this book is approaching its publication, we would love to thank individuals and institutions that provided stalwart support.
Our first thanks go to the conference participants and contributors to this volume for their friendship, kindness, patience, collegiality, and expertise. We also thank the organizers of the Congress of Byzantine Studies, who gave us an opportunity to present the relevance of the topic of type and archetype to the wider scholarly audience. Additional thanks are due to the leadership of the College of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Vanderbilt University for logistic and financial support. Above all, we thank the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, John G. Geer; Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Finances, Kamal Saggi; Chair of Classical and Mediterranean Studies, William Caferro; Chair of History of Art and Architecture, Kevin Murphy; and administrative coordinator Julia Kamasz. At Brill, we are immensely grateful to Sarah Blick and Laura D. Gelfand, editors of the series Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, Kate Hammond, acquisition editor, and Marcella Mulder, editor. We cannot ever be grateful enough for their time, focus, promptness, expertise, professionalism, cheer, and genuine support of this project. The expert guidance of the editorial team at Brill, strengthened by the erudite and constructive assessment by the anonymous reviewer, helped us refine and prepare the manuscript for publication. Copyediting and various stages of the book production were carried out by Joe Hannan, Marianne Noble, and Fem Eggers. For illustrative material we thank the Blago Fund, the Foundation of the Holy Monastery Hilandar, the Jewish Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nebojša Stanković, Alexandar (Alex) Blum, Ivan Drpić, Joshua Schwartz, and Yehoshua Peleg. Our families supported this project with grace and love.
Jelena Bogdanović, Ida Sinkević, Marina Mihaljević, and Čedomila Marinković
September 2022