Byzantine literature

Byzantine literature is Greek literature written during the time of the Middle Ages.

Byzantine Literature Media

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  The Alexiad, a history by Anna Komnene, in a 12th-century manuscript. Kept in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence

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  A Byzantine Gospel of the 13th century, it shows the increasing trend towards the use of Ivory as an artistic tool.

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  A page from a 16th-century edition of the vast Byzantine encyclopaedia, the Suda.

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  A Modern copy of a Byzantine Horologion, showing the daily cycle of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

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  The Scholar Emperor Constantine VII, being crowned by Christ.

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  An illustration of the Parable of the Good Samaritan from the Rossano Gospels, believed to be the oldest surviving illustrated New Testament.

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  The Troodos Mountains, from which Digenis Akritas used to jump to Asia Minor in the epic poem