In comparisonwith the wave of research dedicated to the aesthetics of the Latin Middle Ages, Byzantine aesthetics must be considered a relatively new and still largely unexplored subject. The contributions assembled in the present volume document the growing research interest in this field and present a wide variety of issues and methodologies that will be of interest to students and scholars of the philosophy, art, and literature of Late Antiquity and the Byzantine period.

Among the many versions of the Alexander Romance originating from Alexandria (3rd century AD) the long Byzantine Alexander Poem takes a special place. It is transmitted in only one miscellaneous manuscript, Ms. Marcianus Graecus 408, and contains 6130 political (fifteen-syllable) verses. Thisedition presents a new criticaltext of the Byzantine Alexander Poem with an introduction and an extensive commentary.

Dieser Sammelband vereinigt sechsundzwanzig Beitrage zur byzantinischen Literatur, in denen renommierte Byzantinisten Themen aus dem Bereich der Epistolografie, Historiografie, Hagiografie, Philologie und Prosopografie behandeln. Unter den untersuchten Texten bzw. Dokumenten finden sich etliche, die neu ediert worden sind.

Saint Theodosia of Constantinople enjoys a special place among the martyrs of the iconoclastic persecutions. Her cult reached its zenith under the Byzantine dynasty of the Palaiologoi (1259-1453), which is reflected not only in three rhetorical panegyrics in her honour, but also in historical works, poetry, hymnography, and in the travel journals of Russian pilgrims.
Kotzabassi provides a detailed analysis of and a commentary on these texts, as well as a critical edition based on all known manuscripts of the texts, some of which are published for the first time.

Der Band untersucht die Wirkung der byzantinischen Kultur auf das ubrige Europa vom Mittelalter uber Renaissance, Reformation und Aufklarung bis zur Gegenwart. Die Beitrage werfen neues Licht auf Formen der Rezeption, Adaption und Nachwirkung sowie des Konflikts zwischen den Kulturen. Sie nehmen Phanomene der Literatur, Philosophie und Theologie, Geschichte, Rechtswissenschaft, Musik und Kunst in den Blick. Es wird erlautert, wie das byzantinische Reich als Kulturtrager von Griechentum, Romertum und Christentum die Entwicklung Europas wesentlich mitgestaltet hat.