Table of Contents

Contents: Cult and devotion in late Byzantine Thessalonica – Intertextuality in the encomia – Convention and originality: the athlete of Christ – Internal literary evidence for the festival of the saint – Signs of the times: responses to contemporary life – Aftermath – Responses to the fall of Thessalonica in 1430 by John Anagnostes in his Narration and Monody.

About the Author

Eugenia Russell is Lecturer in History at St Mary's University, Twickenham. She is the author of Literature and Culture in Late Byzantine Thessalonica (2013, paperback 2014), '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).