Byzantinisches Archiv -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Note on citation and transliteration -- Notes on contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Author in Middle Byzantine Literature: A View from Within -- 1 Authorial modes, authorial choices -- 2 Beyond tradition -- 3 Authorial constructions -- 4 Authorial identities -- First Part: Modes -- Voice, Signature, Mask: The Byzantine Author -- 1 Authors: rhetorical theory and manuscript practice -- 2 The author-less tradition -- 3 Rhetoric meets anonymity -- 4 Concluding remarks -- The Ethics of Authorship: Some Tensions in the 11th Century -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The discourse of modesty -- 3 The discourse of display -- 4 A tension difficult to resolve -- 5 Michael Psellos: contrasting voices -- 6 John Mauropous: a uniform voice -- 7 Concluding remarks -- Questions of Authorship and Genre in Chronicles of the Middle Byzantine Period: The Case of Michael Psellos' Historia Syntomos -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Aspects of self-representation and genre intrusion in Michael Psellos' Historia Syntomos -- 3 Concluding remarks -- His, and Not His: The Poems of the Late Gregory the Monk -- 1 The Harvard Psalter -- 2 Two penitential prayers -- 3 Concluding remarks -- Appendix -- Authorship and Authority in the Book of the Philosopher Syntipas -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Authority inscribed -- 3 The plot -- 4 Authorship ascribed -- 5 Authorship fictionalized -- 6 The authority of the translator -- 7 The Book of the Philosopher Syntipas and the scope of authorial creativity -- Second Part: Functions -- Authorial Voice and Self-Presentation in a 9th-Century Hymn on the Prodigal Son -- 1 A kanōn for the Sunday of the Prodigal -- 2 From the lection to the hymn -- 3 Modeling the Christian self -- 4 Dramatizing penitence and redemption.

Aristocracy and Literary Production in the 10th Century -- 1 Introduction -- 2 John Geōmetrēs as a court poet -- 3 Literary production and aristocratic warrior culture -- 4 John Geōmetrēs' "self-assertiveness" and his ideal of virtue -- 5 Evolutions and continuity in cultural life during the reign of Basil II -- The Anonymous Poets of the Anthologia Marciana: Questions of Collection and Authorship -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Why are these poems anonymous? -- 3 Identification of authors -- 4 The authorship of the 12th-century dedicatory epigrams on works of art: donor - poet - artist -- 5 Concluding remarks -- "Perhaps the Scholiast Was also a Drudge." Authorial Practices in Three Middle Byzantine Sub-Literary Writings -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The older scholia to Plato -- 3 The collection of Greek proverbs by Ps. Zēnobios -- 4 Tzetzēs' scholia to Lykophrōn's Alexandra -- 5 Concluding remarks -- In Search of the Monastic Author. Story-Telling, Anonymity and Innovation in the 12 th Century -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The texts -- 2.1 The Life of Cyril Phileōtēs by Nicholas Kataskepēnos -- 2.2 The Diēgēsis merikē -- 2.3 The Testament (1214) of Neophytos the Recluse -- 3 Analysis of the texts -- 3.1 The Life of Cyril Phileōtēs -- 3.2 Diēgēsis merikē -- 3.3 The Testament of Neophytos the Recluse -- 4 Authorship in the texts -- 5 Concluding remarks -- Third Part: Identities -- The End of . Authorial Identity and Authorial Intention in Michael Chōniatēs' -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The purpose of education -- 3 Intellectuals in a tough world -- 4 Identity and rhetoric -- 5 Concluding remarks -- Anonymity, Dispossession and Reappropriation in the Prolog of Nikēphoros Basilakēs -- 1 Anonymity and dispossession -- 2 Dangerous bookishness -- 3 Obliterating the author's liability -- 4 Ecclesiastes 12:12: a double-edged text -- 5 Historical identity and the text.

6 Concluding remarks -- Authorship and Gender (and) Identity. Women's Writing in the Middle Byzantine Period -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Writing and chanting for redemption: female authorial practices in 9th-century liturgical poetry -- 3 Writing as self-representation: female authorial practices in the Komnenian era -- 4 Concluding remarks -- The Authorial Voice of Anna Komnēnē -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Authorship, modesty, and gender -- 3 A modest daughter writes history -- 4 Authorial self-presentation and historicity -- Afterword -- A Perspective from the Far (Medieval) West on Byzantine Theories of Authorship -- 1 Authorship and agency -- 2 Authorship and anonymity -- 3 Authorship, identity, self and community -- 4 Authorship and gender: strategies of women writing -- 5 Authorship over time -- Bibliography -- Primary sources -- Secondary Literature -- General Index -- Index of authors and texts.