The key source is: Walz, C., ed., ‘Ἐξήγησις εἰς τὰς Ἰδέας τοῦ Ἑρμογένους ἀπὸ φωνῆς Ἰωάννου φιλοσόφου τοῦ Σικελιώτου’ in Rhetores graeci ex codicibus Florentinis, Mediolanensibus, Monacensibus, Neapolitanis, Parisiensibus, Romanis, Venetis, Taurinensibus et Vindobonensibus (Stuttgart, 1834), vol. vi, 56–504. Relevant studies include: T. M. Conley, ‘Demosthenes Dethroned: Gregory Nazianzus in Sikeliotes’ Scholia on Hermogenes’ Περὶ Ἰδεῶν’, ICS, 27/28 (2002–3), 145–52; G. Kustas, Studies in Byzantine Rhetoric (Thessalonike, 1973); P. Roilos, Amphoteroglossia: A Poetics of the Twelfth-century Medieval Greek Novel (Cambridge, MA, 2005) and ‘Phantasia and the Ethics of Fictionality in Byzantium: A Cognitive Anthropological Perspective’ in P. Roilos, ed., Medieval Greek Storytelling: Fictionality and Narrative in Byzantium (Wiesbaden, 2014), 9–30.Google Scholar

The key primary source is: Flusin, B. and Cheynet, J.-C., trans., Jean Skylitzès. Empereurs de Constantinople (Paris, 2003). Relevant studies include: C. Roueché, ‘The Rhetoric of Kekaumenos’ in E. M. Jeffreys, ed., Rhetoric in Byzantium (Aldershot, 2003), 23–37; E. M. Jeffreys, ‘Rhetoric in Byzantium’ in I. Worthington, ed., A Companion to Greek Rhetoric (Oxford, 2007), 166–84; M. J. Jeffreys, ‘Psellos and “His Emperors”: Fact, Fiction and Genre’ in R. Macrides, ed., History as Literature in Byzantium (Farnham, 2010), 73–91; J. Shepard, ‘A Suspected Source of Scylitzes’ Synopsis Historion: the Great Catacalon Cecaumenus’, BMGS, 16 (1992), 171–81.Google Scholar

Key studies include: Alexander, J. C., ‘Cultural Pragmatics: Social Performance Between Ritual and Strategy’ in Alexander, J. C., Giesen, B. and Mast, J. L., eds., Social Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics, and Ritual (Cambridge, 2006), 29–90; E. C. Bourbouhakis, ‘Rhetoric and Performance’ in P. Stephenson, The Byzantine World (London, 2010), 175–87 and E. C. Bourbouhakis, ‘The End of ἐπίδειξις. Authorial Identity and Authorial Intention in Michael Choniates’ Πρὸς τοὺς αἰτιωμένους τὸ ἀφιλένδεικτον’ in A. Pizzone, ed., The Author in Middle Byzantine Literature. Modes, Functions, Identities (Berlin, 2014), 201–24; N. Gaul, ‘The Letter in the Theatron: Epistolary Voice, Character, Soul and their Audience’ in A. Riehle, ed., A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography (Leiden, forthcoming); I. Toth, ‘Rhetorical Theatron in Late Byzantium: the Example of Palaiologan Imperial Orations’ in M. Grünbart, ed., Theatron: Rhetorische Kultur in Spätantike und Mittelalter (Berlin, 2007), 429–48.Google Scholar

The key primary source is: Thurn, I., ed., Ioannis Malalae. Chronographia (Berlin, 2000); E. M. Jeffreys, M. J. Jeffreys and R. Scott, eds. and trans., The Chronicle of John Malalas (Melbourne, 1986). Studies include: E. M. Jeffreys, with B. Croke and R. Scott, eds., Studies in John Malalas (Sydney, 1990); M. Meier, C. Radtki and F. Schulz, eds., Die Weltchronik des Johannes Malalas: Autor – Werk – Überlieferung (Stuttgart, 2016).Google Scholar

The key editions are: Grosdidier de Matons, J., ed., Romanos le Mélode. Hymnes, 5 vols. (Paris, 1964–81); P. Maas and C. A. Trypanis, eds., Sancti Romani melodi cantica: Cantica genuina (Oxford, 1963) and Sancti Romani melodi cantica: Cantica dubia (Berlin, 1970). Studies include: G. Richter, Oikonomia: Der Gebrauch des Wortes Oikonomia im Neuen Testament, bei den Kirchenvätern und in der theologischen Literatur bis ins 20. Jahrhundert (Berlin, 2005); J. Koder, ‘Romanos Melodos und sein Publikum: Zur Einbeziehung und Beeinflussung der Zuhörer durch das Kontakion’, AnzWien, 134 (1999), 63–94.Google Scholar

The key texts are: Greenfield, P. H., The Life of Saint Symeon the New Theologian (Cambridge, MA, 2013) and A. Kambylis, ed., Symeon Neos Theologos. Hymnen (Berlin, 1976). Important studies include: C. Barber, ‘Symeon the New Theologian: Seeing Beyond Painting’ in C. Barber, Contesting the Logic of Painting: Art and Understanding in Eleventh-century Byzantium (Leiden, 2007), 23–59 and A. Markopoulos, ed., Τέσσερα κείμενα για την ποίηση του Συμεών του Νέου Θεολόγου (Αthens, 2008).Google Scholar

The main text is: Bucossi, A., ed., Andronici Camateri Sacrum armamentarium: Pars prima (Turnhout, 2014). Introductory scholarship includes: G. Dagron, Emperor and Priest: The Imperial Office in Byzantium (Cambridge, 2003); P. Magdalino, The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143–1180 (Cambridge, 1993); J. Spiteris, La critica Bizantina del primato romano nel secolo xii (Rome, 1979).Google Scholar

The key sources are: Reinsch, D. R. and Kambylis, A., eds., Annae Comnenae. Alexias, 2 vols. (Berlin, 2001); P. Gautier, ed. and trans., Nicéphore Bryennios. Histoire. Introduction, texte, traduction et notes (Brussels, 1975); M. Pinder and T. Büttner-Wobst, eds., Ioannis Zonarae Annales et Epitomae historiarum, 3 vols. (Bonn, 1841–97). Study: J. Howard-Johnston, ‘Anna Komnene and the Alexiad’ in M. Mullett and D. Smythe, eds., Alexios I Komnenos – Papers of the Second Belfast Byzantine International Colloquium, 14–16 April 1989 (Belfast, 1996), 260–302.Google Scholar

The key texts are: Jeffreys, E. M., ed., Digenis Akritis: The Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions (Cambridge, 1998); E. Trapp, ed., Digenes Akrites. Synoptische Ausgabe der ältesten Versionen (Vienna, 1971); P. Chiesa, ed., Liudprandi Cremonensis Antapodosis, Homelia paschalis, Historia Ottonis, Relatio de legatione Constantinopolitana (Turnhout, 1998). For an introduction, see: C. Cupane, and B. Krönung, ʽGeschichten von der Grenzeʼ in F. Daim, ed., Das Goldene Byzanz und der Orient (Schallaburg, 2012), 155–69; C. Jouanno, ‘Shared Spaces: 1 Digenis Akritis, the Two-blood Border Lord’ in C. Cupane and B. Krönung, eds., Fictional Storytelling in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond (Leiden, 2016), 260–84.Google Scholar

The main text is: Nørgaard, L. and Smith, O. L., eds., A Byzantine Iliad: The Text of Par. suppl. gr. 926. Edited with Critical Apparatus, Introduction and Indexes (Copenhagen, 1975). For an introduction, see: R. Beaton, The Medieval Greek Romance, second edition, revised and expanded (London, 1996); E. M. Jeffreys, ‘Byzantine Romances: Eastern or Western?’ in M. Brownlee and D. Gondicas, eds., Renaissance Encounters: Greek East and Latin West (Princeton, NJ, 2013), 221–37; U. Moennig, ‘Έρως, μοίρα, ιστορία, θάνατος. Διαπλεκόμενοι θεματικοί άξονες στη Βυζαντινή Ιλιάδα’ in S. Kaklamanes and M. Paschales, eds., Η πρόσληψη της αρχαιότητας στο Βυζαντινό και νεοελληνικό μυθιστόρημα (Athens, 2005), 73–85 U. Moennig, ‘Biographical Arrangement as a Generic Feature and its Multiple Use in Late Byzantine Narratives: an Exploration of the Field’, Phrasis, 51 (2010), 103–47 and R. Lavagnini, ‘Tales of the Trojan War: Achilles and Paris in Medieval Greek Literature’ in C. Cupane and B. Krönung, eds., Fictional Storytelling in the Medieval Eastern Meditterraean and Beyond (Leiden, 2016), 234–59.Google Scholar