Charis Messis, Margaret Mullet, and Ingela Nilsson, eds. Storytelling in Byzantium?: Narratological Approaches to Byzantine Texts and Images. Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia, 19. Uppsala, 2018.

From Uppsala Univeritet

With the present volume we wished to push the contributors to move in the direction of postclassical narratology and explore its potential for analysing premodern texts, but above all to encourage them to find their own variety of narratological analysis, classical or not. Such an approach has been encouraged within the research network “Texte et récit à Byzance” (2015–2017), which has offered a fruitful platform for exchange of ideas between students and scholars interested in Byzantine narratives and narratological perspectives. The chapters of this volume represent some, but not all of the projects that have been carried out within or in collaboration with the research network, and we think they will be both instructive and inspirational for colleagues across the field of Byzantine Studies.