Byzantine Authors: Literary Activities and Preoccupations: Texts and Translations Dedicated to the Memory of Nicolas Oikonomides (Medieval Mediterranean, 49)

283 pages : 24 cm. TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Preface -- Chapter One Cosmological Confectionary and Equal opportunity in the Eleventh Century. An Ekphrasis by Christopher of Mitylene (Poem 42) -- Chapter Two Two Teaching Texts from the Twelfth-Century Orphanotropheion -- Chapter Three Alexander the Monk's Text of Helena's Discovery of the Cross (BHG 410) -- Chapter Four Elias the Monk. Friend of Psellos -- Chapter Five Five Miracles of St. Menas -- Chapter Six Elias of Heliopolis. The Life of an Eighth-Century Syrian Christian Saint -- Chapter Seven Two Military Orations of Constantine VII. Chapter Eight A Byzantine Instructional Manual on Siege Defense: The De Obsidione toleranda. Introduction, English Translation and Annotations -- Bibliography --.