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Offering a comprehensive introduction to the history of books, readers and reading in the Byzantine Empire and its sphere of influence, this volume addresses a paradox. Advanced literacy was rare among imperial citizens, being restricted by gender and class. Yet the state's economic, religious and political institutions insisted on the fundamental importance of the written record. Starting from the materiality of codices, documents and inscriptions, the volume's contributors draw attention to the evidence for a range of interactions with texts. They examine the role of authors, compilers and scribes. They look at practices such as the close perusal of texts in order to produce excerpts, notes, commentaries and editions. But they also analyse the social implications of the constant intersection of writing with both image and speech. Showcasing current methodological approaches, this collection of essays aims to place a discussion of Byzantium within the mainstream of medieval textual studies.

Teresa Shawcross is Associate Professor of History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University, New Jersey. Interested in the pre-modern book, she has studied the materiality of manuscripts, the role of authors, translators and scribes, and the interplay between literacy and orality. Publications include: The Chronicle of Morea: Historiography in Crusader Greece (2009).

Ida Toth is Senior Instructor and Lecturer, and Research Fellow at University of Oxford. She convenes graduate courses in Medieval Latin, Byzantine Greek, and Byzantine Epigraphy. She has published on inscriptional culture and court rhetoric, and on the transmission of the Life of Aesop and the Book of Syntipas the Philosopher.

Introduction to Books, Readers and Reading
pp 1-50

Introduction I - Byzantium: a Bookish World
pp 3-36
By Teresa Shawcross

Introduction II - Modern Encounters with Byzantine Texts and their Reading Publics
pp 37-50
By Ida Toth


Part I - Love for the Written Word
pp 51-154

The Emotions of Reading
pp 53-90

Chapter 1 - John Mauropous and the Benefits of Reading
pp 55-67
By Marina Bazzani


Chapter 2 - The Autobiographies of the Patriarch Gennadios II Scholarios
pp 68-90
By Michael Angold


Centre and Margins
pp 91-92

Chapter 3 - The Role of the Speeches of John the Oxite in Komnenian Court Politics
pp 93-115
By Judith R. Ryder


Chapter 4 - The Liturgical Poetics of an Elite Religious Confraternity
pp 116-132
By Paul Magdalino


Chapter 5 - Manuscript Notes and the Black Death in Rural Cyprus
pp 133-154
By Tassos Papacostas
08

Part II - Contact with a Living Culture
pp 155-372

The Power of Rhetoric
pp 157-234

Chapter 6 - Ancient Greek Rhetorical Theory and Byzantine Discursive Politics: John Sikeliotes on Hermogenes
pp 159-184
By Panagiotis Roilos
09

Chapter 7 - Memoirs as Manifesto: the Rhetoric of Katakalon Kekaumenos
pp 185-214
By Jonathan Shepard
10

Chapter 8 - Performative Reading in the Late Byzantine Theatron
pp 215-234
By Niels Gaul
11

Religious Texts
pp 235-314

Chapter 9 - The Religious World of John Malalas
pp 237-254
By David M. Gwynn
12

Chapter 10 - Oikonomia in the Hymns of Romanos the Melode
pp 255-270
By Johannes Koder
13

Chapter 11 - Quotation and Allusion in Symeon the New Theologian
pp 271-295
By Manolis S. Patedakis
Chapter 12 - Scriptural Citation in Andronikos Kamateros
pp 296-314
By Alessandra Bucossi
15

Secular Texts
pp 315-316

Chapter 13 - Aristocratic Family Narratives in Twelfth-century Byzantium
pp 317-335
By Peter Frankopan
16

Chapter 14 - Historiography, Epic and the Textual Transmission of Imperial Values: Liudprand’s Antapodosis and Digenes Akrites
pp 336-350
By Günter Prinzing
17

Chapter 15 - Intertextuality in the Late Byzantine Romance Tale of Troy
pp 351-372
By Ulrich Moennig
18

Part III - Communication and Influence
pp 373-514

Educational Practices
pp 375-394

Chapter 16 - Late Byzantine School Teaching Through the Iambic Canons and their Paraphrase
pp 377-394
By Dimitrios Skrekas
19

Text and Image
pp 395-444

Chapter 17 - Eros, Literature and the Veroli Casket
pp 397-413
By Liz James
20

Chapter 18 - Object, Text and Performance in Four Komnenian Tent Poems
pp 414-429
By Margaret Mullett
21

Chapter 19 - Textual and Visual Representations of the Antipodes from Byzantium and the Latin West
pp 430-444
By Maja Kominko
22

Interlingual Circulation and Transmission
pp 445-446

Chapter 20 - Basil I, Constantine VII and Armenian Literary Tradition in Byzantium
pp 447-466
By Tim Greenwood
23

Chapter 21 - Bilingual Reading, the Alexiad and the Gesta Roberti Wiscardi
pp 467-498
By James Howard-Johnston
24

Chapter 22 - Transplanting Culture: from Greek Novel to Medieval Romance
pp 499-514
By Roderick Beaton
25

Part IV - Modern Reading as Textual Archaeology
pp 515-625

Traces of Authorship
pp 517-584

Chapter 23 - Anonymous Textual Survivals from Late Antiquity
pp 519-546
By Fiona K. Haarer
26

Chapter 24 - Authorship and the Letters of Theodore Daphnopates
pp 547-557
By John Duffy
27

Chapter 25 - Authorship Revisited: Language and Metre in the Ptochoprodromika
pp 558-584
By Marjolijne C. Janssen, Marc D. Lauxtermann
28

Recovered Languages
pp 585-586

Chapter 26 - The Lexicon of Horses’ Colours in Learned and Vernacular Texts
pp 587-594
By Erich Trapp
29

Chapter 27 - Multilingualism and Translation in the Edition of Vernacular Texts
pp 595-625
By Manolis Papathomopoulos
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