Table of Contents

Prologue: Where is Thessalonica? Part 1: Setting the Scene 1. Methodology, Parameters and Subject Matter 2. Thessalonica: Historical and Geographical Background Part 2: Byzantine Hymnography as a Signifier of Civic Identity in Thessalonica 3. Symeon of Thessalonica and the Sung Thessalonian Rite 4. A Byzantine Hymn to St Demetrius as an Example of Civic Identity Part 3: Legacies of the Thessalonian Byzantine Culture 5. Andronikos Kallistos: An Intellectual Biography of an Émigré from Thessalonica 6. An Akathistos Hymn to St Demetrius: An Example of Post-Byzantine Devotion Part 4: Auxiliary Materials Maps Illustrations Learning Resources Appendix Index

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A cultural history of one of the most important centres of the Hellenistic and Byzantine world.

About the Author

Eugenia Russell is Lecturer in History at St Mary's University, Twickenham, UK. She is the author of St Demetrius of Thessalonica: Cult and Devotion in the Middle Ages (2010), 'Two Greek excerpts by Johannes Cuno (1463-1513) in London Arundel 550', Renaissance Studies 24 (2010), 'Donors, texts and images. Visualisation of the hagiographical cycle of St Panteleimon' (with Teodora Burnand), Byzantion 81 (2011) and the editor of Spirituality in Late Byzantium (2009).

Reviews

It is a fact that Russell’s book offers the reader a different perspective on interesting aspects of the literal and cultural atmosphere of post-Byzantine Thessalonica ... [It is] an important tool for those interested in the Palaiologan era and Byzantine studies generally. The historic, literary and prosopographical information that it provides and the methodology of the research that follows are particularly interesting, in a way that makes the book a useful aid not only for students and young researchers, but also for the scientific world in general.
*The Journal of Hellenic Studies*