The heart of the Empire: The Great Palace of the Byzantine Emperors reconsidered (Jan Kostenec) Early Byzantine Housing (Simon Elis) Middle and Late Byzantine houses in Greece (tenth to fifteenth centuries) (Lefteris Sigalos) Shops, retailing and the local economy in the Early Byzantine world: The example of Sardis (Anthea Harris) Everyday artefacts as indicators of religious belief in Byzantine Palestina (Eliya Ribak).