Witness Literature in Byzantium

Adam J. Goldwyn is Associate Professor of English at North Dakota State University. He is the co-editor of Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and author of Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

• 1. Bearing Witness in Eustathios of Thessaloniki’s Capture of Thessaloniki: Holocaust Literature and the Narration of Trauma in Byzantium.- 2. Prison Literature and Slave Narratives in Byzantium: John Kaminiates’ Capture of Thessaloniki.- 3. The Carceral Imaginary in Byzantium: The Komnenian Novels as Holocaust Fiction.- 4. The Refugee as Historian: Niketas Choniates and the Capture of Constantinople.