1st Edition

After the Text Byzantine Enquiries in Honour of Margaret Mullett

Edited By Liz James, Oliver Nicholson, Roger Scott Copyright 2022
    404 Pages 45 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    404 Pages 45 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    After the Text honours the work of renowned historian Margaret Mullett, who since the 1970s has transformed the study of Byzantine literature.

    Her work has been influential in demonstrating the strength and variety of Byzantine texts. Byzantium is renowned for its achievements in architecture and the visual arts. Byzantium is renowned for its achievements in architecture and the visual arts. Professor Mullett's perceptive studies, produced over more than 40 years, have shown that the literature of the Byzantine Empire is of equal beauty and interest, ranging, as it does, from high-style poetry and rhetoric in the classical manner through letters to demotic writings such as fables and the lives of saints. The collection of essays in this volume draws further attention to the wealth and diversity of Byzantine texts, by exploring the Greek literature of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages in all its variety. These studies, by going, like Professor Mullett herself, beyond the texts, illustrate the value of Byzantine literature for interpreting Byzantine history and civilisation in all its richness.

    This book is crucial reading for scholars and students of the Byzantine world, as well as for those interested in literary studies.

    Chapter 16 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. 

    Introduction

    Part I: Performance, Narrative and Text 

    1. The Presentation of Christ in the Temple (Hypapante) according to Two Byzantine Hymnographers: An Encounter in Liturgical Time and Space

    Mary B. Cunningham

    2. Variations on the Theme of Death: Two Byzantine Limb-by-Limb Laments 

    Barbara Crostini 

    3. Theodore Prodromos, Carmina historica, I: Translation and Commentary 

    Paul Magdalino and †Ruth Macrides

    4. Visually Demolished and Textually Reconstructed: Performing the Middle Ages in Contemporary Crime Fiction

    Panagiotis A. Agapitos

    5. More than a Story: Lactantius, the Anger of God and the Deaths of the Persecutors 

    Oliver Nicholson 

    6. Narratives of Fluency: Miracles of Mary and Mariology between Byzantium and the West

    Francesca Dell'Acqua

    7. What’s in a Name? The Byzantine Chronicles 

    Paolo Odorico

    8. Kedrenos’ Substitution for Theophanes’ Chronicle 

    Roger Scott with John Burke and Paul Tuffin 

    9. The Typikon Section in the Lives of Athanasios the Athonite: Sources and Agendas 

    Dirk Krausmüller 

    10. Constantine the Rhodian’s εἰκών of the Church of the Holy Apostles at Constantinople

    Beatrice Daskas

    11. Τῇ βασιλίσσῃ μοναχῇ κυρᾷ: An Unedited Letter to Eirene Doukaina (and an Ethopoiia in Verse by her Son for his Father) 

    Stratis Papaioannou 

    12. Sophocles, Euripides and the Unusual Cento 

    Przemysław Marciniak 

    13. Letters, Latinitas, and Latent Wordplay: John Milton’s Didactic Epistles to Richard Jones 

    Estelle Haan 

    Part II: Emotion and Gender

    14. The Rose and the Dung Beetle: Theodore Laskaris on ‘Friendship’ and ‘Envy’

    Martin Hinterberger

    15. Homo Byzantinus: Keeping Women in their Place

    Liz James

    16. Same-Gender Friendships and Enmity in the Life of Eupraxia

    Stavroula Constantinou 

    17. Basil the Younger Comes to Stay: Eunuchs and Other Male Friends in Constantinopolitan Households 

    Shaun Tougher 

    18. Women Remembering Women? The ‘Miracle in Latomos’ Motif in Medieval Macedonia 

    Rowena Loverance 

    Part III: Text and Physical Context

    19. Reading Aesop in Cappadocia 

    Robert Ousterhout with assistance from Anna Sitz 

    20. Reading an Icon of the Black Mohammed: Georgios Klontzas on Islam

    Charles Barber 

    21. The Monastery of Christ the Saviour in Sourmaina and the Hagiographical Dossier of St Eugenios 

    James Crow 

    22. The Transmission of Monumental Art: Travelling Saints and Monastic Networks 

    Pamela Armstrong

    23. Exploring Thessaloniki – a Mismatch of Art History and Urban History 

    Robin Cormack 

    24. The Impact of Choir and Organ on Synagogue Architecture. Preliminary Thoughts on the Role of Musical Performance in Balkan Sephardic Communities 

    Fani Gargova 

    Epilogue

    Leslie Brubaker

    Biography

    Liz James is Professor of Art History at the University of Sussex, UK.

    Oliver Nicholson taught Late Antiquity at the University of Minnesota, USA.

    Roger Scott taught Classics at the University of Melbourne, Australia.