Script as image in cross-cultural perspective (300-1600 CE) / Brigitte Bedos-Rezak and Jeffrey Hamburger -- Visible/legible : an iconic typology of writing / Anne-Marie Christin -- Pictorial talking : the figural rendering of speech acts and texts in Aztec Mexico / Elizabeth Hill Boone -- Chrysep's Stichourgia : the Byzantine epigram as aesthetic object / Ivan Drpić -- Rebus-signatures / Béatrice Fraenkel -- From many into one : the transformation of pre-Columbian signs into European letters in the sixteenth-century / Tom Cummins -- Dynamic signs and spiritual designs / Herbert L. Kessler -- From Christ's monogram to God's presence : an epigraphic contribution to the study of Chrismons in Romanesque sculpture / Vincent Debiais -- The role of Hebrew letters in making the divine visible / Katrin Kogman-Appel -- The content of form : Islamic calligraphy between text and representation / İrvin Cemil Schick -- Text on/in monuments : "lapidary style" in ancient Mesopotamia / Irene J. Winter -- Monograms and the art of unhelpful writing in late antiquity / Antony Eastmond -- The performative letter in the Carolingian Sacramentary of Gellone / Cynthia Hahn -- The colors of the ritual : description and inscription of church dedication in liturgical manuscripts (10th-11th centuries) / Didier Méhu.