Kuper - The Menologion of Basil II
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674291027
The Menologion of Basil II, one of the most famous manuscripts surviving from Byzantium, contains short narratives to be read during the morning office to commemorate the saint or feast of the day. Dedicated to the emperor Basil II (r. 976–1025), it is best known for its decorative program: each of the 430 entries features a large, dazzling illumination of a corresponding scene. Yet the texts have received much less attention than their illustrations, despite the wealth of information that they provide about the commemoration of the saints in Byzantine society. This unillustrated volume highlights the Menologion as a work that maps the many paths toward Christian sanctity and celebrates the people who walked them, from martyr to monk, from patriarch to prostitute, and everyone in between.
The Menologion of Basil II includes both a new Greek edition, prepared from a fresh reading of the manuscript that replaces the previous eighteenth-century edition, and the first full translation into English—the first into any modern language.
Jenkins and Westerink - Nicholas I, Patriarch of Constantinople
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780884024439
Next to Photius and Michael Cerularius, Nicholas I is probably the most prominent of the patriarchs of Constantinople. He was the central figure in the “tetragamy” affair, the conflict over Leo VI’s fourth marriage, which divided the Church for nearly a century and resulted in Nicholas’s temporary deposition. He was also a major influence in both the domestic and foreign politics of the Eastern Empire throughout the first quarter of the tenth century. His correspondence with the Papal court and with Bulgarian, Caucasian, and Arab provinces, as well as with his own clergy, is a historical source of the first importance, collected in Nicholas I, Patriarch of Constantinople: Letters.
This volume is supplemented by Nicholas I, Patriarch of Constantinople: Miscellaneous Writings (CFHB XX, DOT VI).
Mango and Efthymiadis - The Correspondence of Ignatios the Deacon: Ignatios the Deacon
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780884024514
Bremer-McCollum - The PearlsongIgnatios the Deacon was a key figure in the revival of literary culture that took place at Constantinople in the first half of the ninth century. He is best known for his hagiographical works, but he also wrote poems, compiled an anthology of ancient proverbs, and edited textbooks. For some time he served as bishop of Nicaea under an Iconoclastic regime, but later repented of his errors and moved into the “orthodox” camp.
Preserved in a single manuscript, Ignatios’s correspondence has remained practically unknown to scholars. Some of the letters deal with literary trifles, while others contain valuable information on the social and economic history of the period. Taken together in The Correspondence of Ignatios the Deacon, his letters afford a unique glimpse into the activity of a Byzantine intellectual, struggling to survive in a time of bitter doctrinal strife.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674301467
The Pearlsong is an ancient poem that r ... lossaries.