History, Language and Literacy in the Byzantine World

Variorum
Robert Browning
ISBN: 0860782476
price: $111.95   hardcover

Contents: Preface; The continuity of Hellenism in the Byzantine world; Greeks and others from Antiquity to the Renaissance; Byzantium and Islam in Cyprus in the early Middle Ages; Athens in the "Dark Age"; Byzantine foreign policy and the Bulgarian state, 7th to 10th century; Church, state and learning in 12th century Byzantium; Literacy in the Byzantine world; The "low-level" saint's Life in the early Byzantine world; and address of Nikephoros Chrysoberges to Patriarch John Kamateros of 1202; A young man in a hurry - Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos; A Byzantine scholar of the early 14th century: Georgios Karbones; Greek influence on the Salerno school of medicine; A further testimony to human dissection in the Byzantine world; Greek MS in medieval and renaissance Chios; the language of Byzantine literature; Greek diglossia yesterday and today; Index.