The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Literature

Stratis Papaioannou is Director of Research at the Institute of Historical Research of National Hellenic Research Foundation (EIE, Athens), as well as Principal Investigator of the international research project Retracing Connections. His previous publications include Michael Psellos: Rhetoric and Authorship in Byzantium and, as editor and translator, Christian Novels from the Menologion of Symeon Metaphrastes. He has also published Michael Psellus, Epistulae, and Saints at the Limits: Seven Byzantine Popular Legends.

• List of Contributors AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsList of Figures 1) What is Byzantine Literature? An Introduction Stratis Papaioannou I. Materials, Norms, Codes2) LanguageMartin Hinterberger3) Book CultureFilippo Ronconi and Stratis Papaioannou4) Theory of LiteratureStratis Papaioannou5) Biblical HermeneuticsFr. Maximos Constas6) Memory: Selection, Citation, CommonplaceCharis Messis and Stratis Papaioannou7) The Reception of Classical Literature and Ancient MythAnthony Kaldellis8) Translations I: From Other Languages into Greek I. Latin Réka Forrai II. Syriac Pablo Ubierna III. Arabic Charis Messis and Stratis Papaioannou IV. Georgian Nikoloz Aleksidze V. Neo-Latin Languages Carolina Cupane II. Forms9) Orality and Textuality (With an Appendix on the Byzantine Conceptions) Charis Messis and Stratis Papaioannou10) Narrative: Theory and PracticeIngela Nilsson11) Rhetorical PracticeAlexander Riehle12) Rhetorical FiguresVessela Valiavitcharska13) A Rhetorical Genre(?): The Invective (9th - 15th c.)Ioannis Polemis14) RewritingStephanos Efthymiadis15) Poetry?Floris Bernard and Kristoffel Demoen16) InscriptionsIvan Drpi?17) Metrics and Prose RhythmWolfram Hörandner and Andreas Rhoby18) Sacred SongStratis Papaioannou19) Recitation and Chant: Types of Notation, Modes of ExpressionSandra Martani III. Agents20) Authors (With an Excursus on Symeon Metaphrastes)Stratis Papaioannou21) Readers and their PleasuresStratis Papaioannou IV. Translation, Transmission, Edition22) Translations II: Greek Texts into Other Languages (4th - 15th c.) I. LatinRéka Forrai II. CopticArietta Papaconstantinou III. SyriacPablo Ubierna IV. Armenian Theo Maarten van Lint V. GeorgianNikoloz Aleksidze VI. ArabicAlexander Treiger VII. Slavic Sergey Ivanov and Anatolii Turilov23) Modes of Manuscript Transmission (9th - 15th c.) Inmaculada Pérez Martín 24) Textual Criticism Caroline Macé Postscript25) Thoughts on the Recent Past and the Future of Byzantine Literary StudiesMargaret Mullett Glossary of Rhetorical Figures [Vessela Valiavitcharska]Index of Personal Names and Titles of Anonymous Texts

It is difficult to describe this book as anything but exciting and thought-provoking, and it includes much of value for everyone from undergraduates to scholars whose work touches on the late antique and medieval eastern Mediterranean and eastern and central Europe. Papaioannou and his team ought to be commended for such an important contribution.