122:. She has particular interests in mosaics and in gender issues. She has written extensively on mosaics, discussing practical, iconographic and materialistic approaches to the subject. She has also established a database of Byzantine glass mosaics. In the field of gender, she has discussed Byzantine empresses, eunuchs and the way Byzantine society reacted to gender. She is also interested in the relationship between text and image, believing Byzantine texts to be of equal importance to Byzantine art. James contributed to the
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210:'Seeing is believing but words tell no lies: captions and images in the Libri Carolini and Byzantine Iconoclasm' in eds. A. L. McClanan and J. Johnson,
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Liz James; Ruth Webb, eds. (1991). "To understand ultimate things and enter secret places: ekphrasis and art in
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318:'Bearing gifts from the East: imperial relic-hunters abroad' in ed. A. Eastmond,
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Through the
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190:'At Church' in eds. R. Cormack and M. Vassilaki,
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450:"James, Light and Color in Byzantine Art"
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