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“... Despite its enormous learning, Judith Herrin’s work is marked by small personal touches which humanise the intricate story it tells. In an Afterword, she recalls a visit to Reichenau, which will ring bells for anyone who has visited the great monastic centres there and elsewhere around Lake Constance. In this small, quiet, sunny spot in the foothills of the Alps all the sources of Carolingian culture, both literary and artistic, had been concentrated by the mid-ninth century ...”

“... successful. He was also alert to the importance of women, drawing on the work of scholars such as Judith Herrin and Averil Cameron. For too long the only women in Byzantium who had attracted academic attention were a handful of empresses and the Virgin Mary. Women began to be credited with having ensured the survival of the icon, which is today such an ...”