The Author in Middle Byzantine Literature: Modes, Functions, and Identities

Introduction
Aglae Pizzone: The Author in Middle Byzantine Literature: A View from Within

First Part: Modes
Stratis Papaioannou: Voice, Signature, Mask: The Byzantine Author
Floris Bernard: The Ethics of Authorship: Some Tensions in the 11th Century
Raimondo Tocci: Questions of Authorship and Genre in Chronicles of the Middle Byzantine Period: The Case of Michael Psellos’ Historia Syntomos
Marc D. Lauxtermann: His, and Not His: The Poems of the Late Gregory the Monk
Ida Toth: Authorship and Authority in the Book of the Philosopher Syntipas

Second Part: Functions
Derek Krueger: Authorial Voice and Self-Presentation in a 9th-Century Hymn on the Prodigal Son
Luisa Andriollo: Aristocracy and Literary Production in the 10th Century
Foteini Spingou: The Anonymous Poets of the Anthologia Marciana: Questions of Collection and Authorship
Ulrike Kenens: “Perhaps the Scholiast Was also a Drudge.” Authorial Practices in Three Middle Byzantine Sub-Literary Writings
Margaret Mullett: In Search of the Monastic Author. Story-Telling, Anonymity and Innovation in the 12th Century

Third Part: Identities
Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis: The End of ἐπίδειξις. Authorial Identity and Authorial Intention in Michael Chōniatēs’ Πρὸς τοὺς αἰτιωμένους τὸ ἀφιλένδεικτον
Aglae Pizzone: Anonymity, Dispossession and Reappropriation in the Prolog of Nikēphoros Basilakēs
Alexander Riehle: Authorship and Gender (and) Identity. Women’s Writing in the Middle Byzantine Period
Leonora Neville: The Authorial Voice of Anna Komnēnē

Afterword
Ian Johnson: A Perspective from the Far (Medieval) West on Byzantine Theories of Authorship