The role of the altar in medieval liturgical representation : Holy Week and Easter in Regularis concordia / Nils Holger Petersen -- Veiled word(s), sacred silence : screening the mystery in the Byzantine altar / Nicoletta Isar -- Portable altars (and the Rationale) : liturgical objects and personal devotion / Cynthia Hahn -- Sensing the divine presence : the Ottonian golden altar in Aachen / Annika Elisabeth Fisher -- The panels from Flatatunga : some decorated panels from Iceland and their iconographical context / Signe Horn Fuglesang -- The making of the Catalan Romanesque altar frontal (1119-1150) : issues of technical training, authorship and patronage / Manuel Castiñeiras -- Episcopal iconography in the twelfth-century Tavèrnoles altar frontal / Anna Orriols -- Reflections on the interplay between altar decorations and contemporary frescos in Romanesque churches in Denmark : based on an analysis of the chancels in Lyngsjö Church, Scania, and the churches of Raasted and Lisbjerg in Jutland / Ulla Haastrup -- The arched retable : meaning and origin / Ebbe Nyborg -- Civitas Hierusalem : representing presence in Scandinavian golden altars / Kristin B. Aavitsland -- Materials and techniques for rendering precious appearance in Norwegian painted frontals and Danish golden altars / Unn Plahter -- Christ as king and priest on Limoges crucifixes : reflections of liturgy and materiality / Mona Bramer Solhaug -- Beyond the precious with painterly effects : the thirteenth-century sculpted frontal from Komnes, Buskerud in Norway / Kaja Kollandsrud & Nadine Huth