Byzantinists entered the study of emotion with Henry Maguire's ground-breaking article on sorrow, published in 1977. Since then, classicists and western medievalists have developed new ways of understanding how emotional communities work and where the ancients' concepts of emotion differ from our own, and Byzantinists have begun to consider emotions other than sorrow. It is time to look at what is distinctive about Byzantine emotion. This volume is the first to look at the constellation of Byzantine emotions. Originating at an international colloquium at Dumbarton Oaks, these papers address issues such as power, gender, rhetoric, or asceticism in Byzantine society through the lens of a single emotion or cluster of emotions. Contributors focus not only on the construction of emotions with respect to perception and cognition but also explore how emotions were communicated and exchanged across broad (multi)linguistic, political and social boundaries. Priorities are twofold: to arrive at an understanding of what the Byzantines thought of as emotions and to comprehend how theory shaped their appraisal of reality. Managing Emotion in Byzantium will appeal to researchers and students alike interested in Byzantine perceptions of emotion, Byzantine Culture, and medieval perceptions of emotion.

These studies look at general problems of reading Byzantine literature, at literacy practices and the literary process, but also at individual texts. The past thirty years have seen a revolution in the way Byzantine literature has been viewed: no longer is it considered a decadent form of classical literature or a turgid precursor of modern Greek literature. There are still prejudices to overcome: that there was no literary public, or that Byzantium had no drama or humour, but Byzantine texts are now read as literature in the social context of literacy and book culture. One genre is treated here more fully: the letter (Derrida said that letters represent all literature). In these studies epistolography is examined from the point of view of genre, of originality, of communication and as evidence for political history. Other genres touched on include the novel, historiography, parainesis, panegyric, and hagiography. The section on literary process includes essays on genre, patronage and rhetoric, and the section on literacy practices deals with both writing and reading. The collection includes one unpublished lecture which acts as introduction, and additional notes and comments.

Few works exist on Byzantine literature as literature and still fewer studies of individual texts. This reading of the letter-collection (c.1090-c.1110) of Theophylact of Ochrid employs a variety of approaches to characterise a work which is both a literary artefact in a long Greek tradition and the only trace of a complex network of friends, colleagues, patrons and clients within Byzantine Bulgaria and also within the empire as a whole. These letters are of great importance from the point of view of local economic or ecclesiastical history, relations with the Slavs, the arrival of the First Crusade, but have not hitherto been studied as an example of Byzantine letter writing. This was a genre taken seriously by Byzantines, offering us unique insight into the mentality of the Byzantine elite, but also into what the Byzantines regarded as literature. This book is important as an attempt to raise the status of the study of Byzantine literature, and of letters within that literature. It is a first attempt to place an epistolary text in a succession of literary and historical contexts; its aim, too, is to probe the reliability of any rhetorical text for straightforward biography especially at the time of the revival fiction in Byzantium. At the heart of the book is an analysis of the personal network of Theophylact, as presented in the collection, with further methodological discussion of network analysis in medieval texts.

Few works exist on Byzantine literature as literature and still fewer studies of individual texts. This reading of the letter-collection (c.1090-c.1110) of Theophylact of Ochrid employs a variety of approaches to characterise a work which is both a literary artefact in a long Greek tradition and the only trace of a complex network of friends, colleagues, patrons and clients within Byzantine Bulgaria and also within the empire as a whole. These letters are of great importance from the point of view of local economic or ecclesiastical history, relations with the Slavs, the arrival of the First Crusade, but have not hitherto been studied as an example of Byzantine letter writing. This was a genre taken seriously by Byzantines, offering us unique insight into the mentality of the Byzantine elite, but also into what the Byzantines regarded as literature. This book is important as an attempt to raise the status of the study of Byzantine literature, and of letters within that literature. It is a first attempt to place an epistolary text in a succession of literary and historical contexts; its aim, too, is to probe the reliability of any rhetorical text for straightforward biography especially at the time of the revival fiction in Byzantium. At the heart of the book is an analysis of the personal network of Theophylact, as presented in the collection, with further methodological discussion of network analysis in medieval texts.

Founded in 1941, the annual journal "Dumbarton Oaks Papers" is dedicated to the publication of articles relating to late antique, early medieval, and Byzantine civilization in the fields of art and architecture, history, archaeology, literature, theology, law, and auxiliary disciplines.

This issue includes The Canon Tables of the Psalms: An Unknown Work of Eusebius of Caesarea by Martin Wallraff; Histoires Gothiques a Byzance: Le Saint, Le Soldat, et Le Miracle d Euphemie et du Goth (BHG 739) by Charis Messis and Stratis Papaioannou; Reassessing the Sarcophagi of Ravenna by Edward M. Schoolman; Sources for the Study of Liturgy in Post-Byzantine Jerusalem (638 1187 CE) by Daniel Galadza; (Re)Mapping Medieval Antioch: Urban Transformations from the Early Islamic to the Middle Byzantine Periods by A. Asa Eger; Melkites and Icon Worship during the Iconoclastic Period by Juan Signes Codoner; The Anzas Family: Members of the Byzantine Civil Establishment in the Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Centuries by John Nesbitt and Werner Seibt; Viewing and Description in "Hysmine and Hysminias" The Fresco of the Virtues by Paroma Chatterjee; The Documents of Dominicus Grimani, Notary in Candia (1356 1357) by Nicky Tsougarakis; and The Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus in Kaft n (Northern Lebanon) and Its Wall Paintings by Tomasz Waliszewski, Krzysztof Chmielewski, Mat Immerzeel, and Nada Helou."

Founded in 1941, this annual journal is dedicated to the publication of articles relating to late antique, early medieval, and Byzantine civilization in the fields of art and architecture, history, archaeology, literature, theology, law, and auxilary disciplines.

This issue includes Exiling Bishops: The Policy of Constantius II by Walt Stevenson; In Search of Monotheletism by Jack Tannous; The Archaeology and Reconstruction of Zuart noc by Christina Maranci; Architecture and Ornamental Mosaics in the South Vestibule of St. Sophia at Istanbul: The Secret Door of the Patriarchate and the Imperial Entrance to the Great Church by Philipp Niewohner and Natalia Teteriatnikov; Reality and Invention: Reflections on Byzantine Historiography by Ralph-Johannes Lilie; An Enigmatic Literature: Interpreting an Unedited Collection of Byzantine Riddles in a Manuscript of Cardinal Bessarion (Marc. gr. 522) by Simone Beta; Threads of Power: Clothing Symbolism, Human Salvation, and Female Identity in the Illustrated Homilies by Iakobos of Kokkinobaphos by Maria Evangelatou; The Byzantino-Latin Principality of Adrianople and the Challenge of Feudalism (1204/6 ca. 1227/28): Empire, Venice, and Local Autonomy by Filip Van Tricht; The Image of the Virgin on the Sinai Hexaptych and the Apse Mosaic of Hagia Sophia by Zaza Skhirtladze; Odd Surnames Beginning with Alpha: A Selection of Examples on Byzantine Seals in the Harvard Collections by Werner Seibt and John Nesbitt; The Miniatures in the Rabbula Gospels: Postscripta to a Recent Book by Massimo Bernbo; and Archaeology Report: Results of the Tophane Area GPR Surveys, Bursa, Turkey by Suna Ca aptay."

These studies look at general problems of reading Byzantine literature, at literacy practices and the literary process, but also at individual texts. The past thirty years have seen a revolution in the way Byzantine literature has been viewed: no longer is it considered a decadent form of classical literature or a turgid precursor of modern Greek literature. There are still prejudices to overcome: that there was no literary public, or that Byzantium had no drama or humour, but Byzantine texts are now read as literature in the social context of literacy and book culture. One genre is treated here more fully: the letter (Derrida said that letters represent all literature). In these studies epistolography is examined from the point of view of genre, of originality, of communication and as evidence for political history. Other genres touched on include the novel, historiography, parainesis, panegyric, and hagiography. The section on literary process includes essays on genre, patronage and rhetoric, and the section on literacy practices deals with both writing and reading. The collection includes one unpublished lecture which acts as introduction, and additional notes and comments.