The first full-length, interdisciplinary study of the Greek performing arts - theatre, rhetoric and ritual - between antiquity and the Renaissance.

Emotions in Byzantium came to life through hymnody, which invited the faithful to step into a liturgical world of compunction.

Tracing the Gospel text from script to illustration to recitation, explores the ritual and architectural context of illuminated manuscripts.

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

This Handbook is the first to consider the interrelated subjects of gender and sexuality in the Eastern Roman Empire from an interdisciplinary perspective. Draw