Eugenia Russell is Lecturer in History at St Mary's University, Twickenham, UK. She is the author of St Demetrius of Thessalonica: Cult and Devotion in the Middle Ages (2010), 'Two Greek excerpts by Johannes Cuno (1463-1513) in London Arundel 550', Renaissance Studies 24 (2010), 'Donors, texts and images. Visualisation of the hagiographical cycle of St Panteleimon' (with Teodora Burnand), Byzantion 81 (2011) and the editor of Spirituality in Late Byzantium (2009).

It is a fact that Russell’s book offers the reader a different perspective on interesting aspects of the literal and cultural atmosphere of post-Byzantine Thessalonica ... [It is] an important tool for those interested in the Palaiologan era and Byzantine studies generally. The historic, literary and prosopographical information that it provides and the methodology of the research that follows are particularly interesting, in a way that makes the book a useful aid not only for students and young researchers, but also for the scientific world in general.

• Prologue: Where is Thessalonica?Part 1: Setting the Scene1. Methodology, Parameters and Subject Matter2. Thessalonica: Historical and Geographical BackgroundPart 2: Byzantine Hymnography as a Signifier of Civic Identity in Thessalonica3. Symeon of Thessalonica and the Sung Thessalonian Rite4. A Byzantine Hymn to St Demetrius as an Example of Civic IdentityPart 3: Legacies of the Thessalonian Byzantine Culture5. Andronikos Kallistos: An Intellectual Biography of an Émigré from Thessalonica6. An Akathistos Hymn to St Demetrius: An Example of Post-Byzantine DevotionPart 4: Auxiliary MaterialsMapsIllustrationsLearning ResourcesAppendixIndex

Eugenia Russell is Lecturer in History at St Mary's University, Twickenham, UK. She is the author of St Demetrius of Thessalonica: Cult and Devotion in the Middle Ages (2010), 'Two Greek excerpts by Johannes Cuno (1463-1513) in London Arundel 550', Renaissance Studies 24 (2010), 'Donors, texts and images. Visualisation of the hagiographical cycle of St Panteleimon' (with Teodora Burnand), Byzantion 81 (2011) and the editor of Spirituality in Late Byzantium (2009).

It is a fact that Russell’s book offers the reader a different perspective on interesting aspects of the literal and cultural atmosphere of post-Byzantine Thessalonica ... [It is] an important tool for those interested in the Palaiologan era and Byzantine studies generally. The historic, literary and prosopographical information that it provides and the methodology of the research that follows are particularly interesting, in a way that makes the book a useful aid not only for students and young researchers, but also for the scientific world in general.

• Prologue: Where is Thessalonica?Part 1: Setting the Scene1. Methodology, Parameters and Subject Matter2. Thessalonica: Historical and Geographical BackgroundPart 2: Byzantine Hymnography as a Signifier of Civic Identity in Thessalonica3. Symeon of Thessalonica and the Sung Thessalonian Rite4. A Byzantine Hymn to St Demetrius as an Example of Civic IdentityPart 3: Legacies of the Thessalonian Byzantine Culture5. Andronikos Kallistos: An Intellectual Biography of an Émigré from Thessalonica6. An Akathistos Hymn to St Demetrius: An Example of Post-Byzantine DevotionPart 4: Auxiliary MaterialsMapsIllustrationsLearning ResourcesAppendixIndex

Eugenia Russell is Lecturer in History at St Mary's University, Twickenham, UK. She is the author of St Demetrius of Thessalonica: Cult and Devotion in the Middle Ages (2010), 'Two Greek excerpts by Johannes Cuno (1463-1513) in London Arundel 550', Renaissance Studies 24 (2010), 'Donors, texts and images. Visualisation of the hagiographical cycle of St Panteleimon' (with Teodora Burnand), Byzantion 81 (2011) and the editor of Spirituality in Late Byzantium (2009).

It is a fact that Russell’s book offers the reader a different perspective on interesting aspects of the literal and cultural atmosphere of post-Byzantine Thessalonica ... [It is] an important tool for those interested in the Palaiologan era and Byzantine studies generally. The historic, literary and prosopographical information that it provides and the methodology of the research that follows are particularly interesting, in a way that makes the book a useful aid not only for students and young researchers, but also for the scientific world in general.

• Prologue: Where is Thessalonica?Part 1: Setting the Scene1. Methodology, Parameters and Subject Matter2. Thessalonica: Historical and Geographical BackgroundPart 2: Byzantine Hymnography as a Signifier of Civic Identity in Thessalonica3. Symeon of Thessalonica and the Sung Thessalonian Rite4. A Byzantine Hymn to St Demetrius as an Example of Civic IdentityPart 3: Legacies of the Thessalonian Byzantine Culture5. Andronikos Kallistos: An Intellectual Biography of an Émigré from Thessalonica6. An Akathistos Hymn to St Demetrius: An Example of Post-Byzantine DevotionPart 4: Auxiliary MaterialsMapsIllustrationsLearning ResourcesAppendixIndex