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It is a natural choice to place the Byzantine poets Christopher of Mytilene and John Mauropous together in one volume. Although they never explicitly refer to each other, they write about the same time period, the same places, the same persons, also largely sharing the same style, genres, and intellectual profile. Their poems display a sense of wit and a personal voice that is rarely encountered in Byzantine poetry. They bear eminent witness to the eventful times they lived in and provide a vivid image of contemporary court life and of the city of Constantinople.

Byzantine poetry --- Byzantine poetry. --- Byzantine literature --- Christophoros, --- John, --- Byzantine poetry - Translations into English --- Christophoros, - ho Mytilēnaios --- John, - Mauropus, Metropolitan of Euchaita, - active 11th century

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Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance applies literary ecocriticism to the imaginative fiction of the Greek world from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. Through analyses of hunting, gardening, bride-stealing, and warfare, Byzantine Ecocriticism exposes the attitudes and behaviors that justified human control over women, nature, and animals; the means by which such control was exerted; and the anxieties surrounding its limits. Adam Goldwyn thus demonstrates the ways in which intersectional ecocriticism, feminism, and posthumanism can be applied to medieval texts, and illustrates how the legacies of medieval and Byzantine environmental practice and ideology continue to be relevant to contemporary ecological and environmental concerns.

Romances, Byzantine --- Women in literature. --- Nature in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Nature in poetry --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Byzantine romances --- Romances, Greek --- Byzantine literature --- Literature, Medieval. --- European literature. --- Europe-History-476-1492. --- Medieval Literature. --- European Literature. --- History of Medieval Europe. --- European literature --- Medieval literature --- Europe—History—476-1492. --- Europe --- Gay culture Europe --- History --- 476-1492.

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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.

Books --- Books and reading --- Transmission of texts --- Written communication --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Byzantine literature --- History --- History and criticism --- Byzantine Empire --- Intellectural life --- Books and reading. --- Books. --- Byzantine literature. --- Manuscripts, Medieval. --- Transmission of texts. --- Written communication. --- History and criticism. --- Byzantine Empire. --- Intellectural life. --- Byzantine --- Book history --- book history --- manuscripts [documents] --- reading culture --- anno 500-1499 --- Written discourse --- Written language --- Communication --- Discourse analysis --- Language and languages --- Visual communication --- Medieval manuscripts --- Manuscripts --- Literary transmission --- Manuscript transmission --- Textual transmission --- Criticism, Textual --- Editions --- Library materials --- Publications --- Bibliography --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- Appraisal of books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Byzantium (Empire) --- Vizantii︠a︡ --- Bajo Imperio --- Bizancjum --- Byzantinē Autokratoria --- Vyzantinon Kratos --- Vyzantinē Autokratoria --- Impero bizantino --- Bizantia --- E-books --- Byzantine [culture and style] --- History. --- Books - Byzantine Empire --- Books and reading - Byzantine Empire --- Transmission of texts - Byzantine Empire --- Written communication - Byzantine Empire --- Manuscripts, Medieval - Byzantine Empire - History --- Byzantine literature - History and criticism --- Byzantine Empire - Intellectural life