Few works exist on Byzantine literature as literature and still fewer studies of individual texts. This reading of the letter-collection (c.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents: Map of Theophylact's Letter-Network; Map of Theophylact's Bulgaria; Genre and Milieu; Epistolarity; Evaluation; Reception; 11th Century Constantinople; Byzantine Bulgaria; Alexian literature; Collection and network; Dating and Ordering; Preoccupations and Concerns; Rhetoric; Detecting Theophylact's network; Theophylact's first order zone; The uses of network; Author and man; Theophylact as auctor; Letters in the oeuvre; Other people's letters; The Constantinopolitan; The Bulgarian; The exile; Context and text; Collection; Network; Index.