1st Edition
After the Text Byzantine Enquiries in Honour of Margaret Mullett
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.
