The volume takes up the challenge of applying the methodologies of sociolinguistics to a superposed variety of the language, a form of it that survives only in writing and about the speakers of which there is only limited evidence.

Andrea Massimo Cuomo and Erich Trapp, eds. Toward a Historical Sociolinguistic Poetics of Medieval Greek. Studies in Byzantine history and civilization (SBHC), 12. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017.

From Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR). Review by Foteini Spingou, University of Edinburgh