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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 2. Variations on the Theme of Death: Two Byzantine Limb-by-Limb Laments 3. Theodore Prodromos, Carmina historica, I: Translation and Commentary 4. Visually Demolished and Textually Reconstructed: Performing the Middle Ages in Contemporary Crime Fiction 5. More than a Story: Lactantius, the Anger of God and the Deaths of the Persecutors 6. Narratives of Fluency: Miracles of Mary and Mariology between Byzantium and the West 7. Whatâs in a Name? The Byzantine Chronicles 8. Kedrenosâ Substitution for Theophanesâ Chronicle 9. The Typikon Section in the Lives of Athanasios the Athonite: Sources and Agendas 10. Constantine the Rhodianâs εa¼°ÎºÏν of the Church of the Holy Apostles at Constantinople 11. Τa βαÏιλίÏÏa μÎναÏa κÏÏa¾·: An Unedited Letter to Eirene Doukaina (and an Ethopoiia in Verse by her Son for his Father) 12. Sophocles, Euripides and the Unusual Cento 13. Letters, Latinitas, and Latent Wordplay: John Miltonâs Didactic Epistles to Richard Jones Part II: Emotion and Gender 14. The Rose and the Dung Beetle: Theodore Laskaris on âFriendshipâ and âEnvyâ 15. Homo Byzantinus: Keeping Women in their Place 16. Same-Gender Friendships and Enmity in the Life of Eupraxia 17. Basil the Younger Comes to Stay: Eunuchs and Other Male Friends in Constantinopolitan Households 18. Women Remembering Women? The âMiracle in Latomosâ Motif in Medieval Macedonia Part III: Text and Physical Context 19. Reading Aesop in Cappadocia 20. Reading an Icon of the Black Mohammed: Georgios Klontzas on Islam 21. The Monastery of Christ the Saviour in Sourmaina and the Hagiographical Dossier of St Eugenios 22. The Transmission of Monumental Art: Travelling Saints and Monastic Networks 23. Exploring Thessaloniki â" a Mismatch of Art History and Urban History 24. The Impact of Choir and Organ on Synagogue Architecture. Preliminary Thoughts on the Role of Musical Performance in Balkan Sephardic Communities