After the Text Byzantine Enquiries in Honour of Margaret Mullett

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 lettersto 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.

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 e???? of the Church of the Holy Apostles at Constantinople Beatrice Daskas 11. ?? ßas???ss? µ??a?? ????: 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 Przemyslaw 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

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.