Contents: Introduction, Przemyslaw Marciniak, Katowice and Dion Smythe. Part One Uses and Abuses of Byzantium: Whose Byzantinism - ours or theirs? On the issue of Byzantinism from a cultural semiotic point of view, Helena Bodin; Hieronymus Wolf as editor and translator of Byzantine texts, Roderich Reinsch; The Second Rome as seen by the Third: Russian debates on ‘the Byzantine legacy’, Sergey A. Ivanov; (Saint) Helena of Sofia: evolution of a memory of Saint Constantine’s mother, Vesselina Vatchkova. Part Two Art and Music: Byzantium: a night at the opera, Dion Smythe; Byzantium in Bavaria, Albrecht Berger; Memory, mosaics and the monarch- the neo-byzantine mosaics in Kaiser Wilhelms-Gedächtniskirche, Tonje H. Sřrensen; Type casting Byzantium: perpetuating the 19th-century British pro-classical polemic, Helen Rufus-Ward. Part Three Literature: Les Amours d’Ismčne & Isménias, ‘roman trčs connu’ - The afterlife of a Byzantine novel in 18th-century France, Ingela Nilsson; Adoption of Byzantine motifs in 19th and 20th century Czech and Moravian historical novel production, Lubomíra C. Havlíková; Byzantium in the Polish mirror - Byzantine motifs in Polish literature (19th and 20th centuries), Przemyslaw Marciniak; Constantinople Our Star: The image of Byzantium and Byzantine aesthetics in fin-de-sičcle and modernist poetry, Adam J. Goldwyn.

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