alexander kazhdan a history of byzantine literature

νiii Table of contents
VIII Three Constantinopolitan Vitae of the mid-tenth century 185
A. The Vita of Basil the Younger written by his spiritual son Gregory (BHG 263 264f)-
B. The Vita of Andrew the Fool in Christ written by the priest Nikcphoros (BHG 115z-
117k) C. The anonymous Vita of Niphon (BHG 1371 z). - D. Some similar (and
disssimilar) Constantinopolitan hagiographical discourses
IX Paul of Latros and some other provincial saints 211
A. Saintly escapism: the Vita of Paul the Younger of Latros - B. Identical and different:
the Vita of Demetrianos of Chytri - C. A wandering saint: the Vita of Blasios of Amorion
- D. Minor hagiographical form: Paul of Monembasia
X Great reader and collector: Symcon Metaphrastes 231
A. Predecessors and contemporaries – B. Biography - C Menologion
XI John Geometres and "political" poetry 249
A. Instead of a biography - B. Political poetry - C The withering homileties - D. Joking
rhetoric progymnasma
XII Chivalresque historiography: Leo the Deacon and his contemporaries
A. Noble Warriors in the late tenth-century chronography B.. Leo the Deacon: a
biography – C. The History in ten books - D.The legend of the murder of Nikephoros
Phokas - E. Some epistolographers of Basil II’s day
ΧIII "The Patriot" or the revival of Lucian of Samosata 295
A. Lucian in Byzantium - B. On the date of the Philopatris - C Anti-Christian, anti-
monastic or neutral dialogue.?
XIV Gabriel: between hymnography and hagiography 303
XV Literature of the age of encyclopedism 311
A. Education and book production B. Authors - C. Antiquity and the decline of
traditional genres – D. Character, composition and setting - Ε. The mocking literatus F.
Wording or "style"
Index 337