Peter Brown discusses Saints and Sacred Matter: The Cult of Relics in Byzantium and Beyond edited by Cynthia Hahn and Holger A. Klein, Allegories of the Iliad by John Tzetzes, The Lost World of Byzantium by Jonathan Harris, and Imagining the Byzantine Past: The Perception of History in the Illustrated Manuscripts of Skylitzes and Manasses by Elena N. Boeck in the July 14, 2016 issue of The New York Review of Books.