Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, volume 40, no. 01 (April 2016).

Volume 40, no. 01 (April 2016) celebrates the Journal’s fortieth anniversary and is dedicated to Anthony Bryer.

CONTENTS INCLUDE

Res publica Byzantina? State formation and issues of identity in medieval east Rome
John Haldon

Forty years on: the political ideology of the Byzantine empire
Paul Magdalino

Late antiquity and Byzantium: an identity problem
Averil Cameron

A half century of Syriac studies
Sebastian Brock

On σκορδαψός: gut-knot or eyesore? A tribute to BMGS
Margaret Alexiou

Mesarites as a source: then and now
Michael Angold

The traditional style of thirteenth-century Greek ‘politikos stichos’ poetry and the search for its origins
Elizabeth Jeffreys and Michael Jeffreys

The festival of Saint Demetrios, the Timarion, and the Aithiopika
Byron MacDougall

A literary self-portrait of Nikolaos Mesarites
Beatrice Daskas

Miraculous fish therapy for leprosy (‘elephant disease’) and other skin diseases in Byzantium
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos

REVIEWS INCLUDE

Geoffrey Greatrex and Hugh Elton, with assistance from Lucas McMahon, Shifting Genres in Late Antiquity.
Michael Whitby

Juan Signes Codoñer, The Emperor Theophilos and the East, 829–842. Court and Frontier in Byzantium during the Last Phase of Iconoclasm, Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies 13.
Paul Magdalino

Ruth Macrides, J.A. Munitiz and Dimiter Angelov, Pseudo-Kodinos and the Constantinopolitan Court: Offices and Ceremonies, Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies 15.
Marc Lauxtermann