The corpus of Palaiologan romances consists of about a dozen works of imaginative fiction from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries which narrate the trial

This book investigates issues of identity and narrativity in late Byzantine romances in a Mediterranean context, covering the chronological span from the captur

The first comprehensive introduction in English to books, readers and reading in Byzantium and the wider medieval world surrounding it.

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

The late Byzantine period (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries) was marked by both cultural fecundity and political fragmentation, resulting in an astonishingly m