After the Text honours the work of renowned historian Margaret Mullett, who since the 1970s has transformed the study of Byzantine literature. It is crucial reading for scholars and students of the Byzantine world, as well as for those interested in literary studies.

Liz James is Professor of Art History at the University of Sussex, UK.

Oliver Nicholson taught Late Antiquity at the University of Minnesota, USA.

Roger Scott taught Classics at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

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. What's in a Name? The Byzantine Chronicles 8. Kedrenos' Substitution for Theophanes' Chronicle 9. The Typikon Section in the Lives of Athanasios the Athonite: Sources and Agendas 10. Constantine the Rhodian's e¿¿¿¿ of the Church of the Holy Apostles at Constantinople 11. ¿¿ ßas¿¿¿ss¿ µ¿¿ä¿ ¿¿¿¿: 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 Milton's Didactic Epistles to Richard Jones Part II: Emotion and Gender 14. The Rose and the Dung Beetle: Theodore Laskaris on 'Friendship' and 'Envy' 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 'Miracle in Latomos' 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 - 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