In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study, Andrew Walker White explores the origins of Byzantine ritual - the rites of the early Greek Orthodox Church - a

The first full-length, interdisciplinary study of the Greek performing arts - theatre, rhetoric and ritual - between antiquity and the Renaissance.

Emotions in Byzantium came to life through hymnody, which invited the faithful to step into a liturgical world of compunction.

Tracing the Gospel text from script to illustration to recitation, explores the ritual and architectural context of illuminated manuscripts.

The first comprehensive introduction in English to books, readers and reading in Byzantium and the wider medieval world surrounding it.