Stavroula Constantinou, Ph.D. (2003), is the director of the Centre for Medieval Arts and Rituals of the University of Cyprus and the editor-in-chief of Eventum: A Journal of Medieval Arts & Rituals. She has written on hagiography, narrative, gender, emotions, motherhood, and the body.Andria Andreou, Ph.D. (2017), is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Medieval Arts and Rituals of the University of Cyprus. Her research interests lie mainly with narratives, the portrayal of gender, the art of storytelling, narrative voice, the orchestration of characters, and other theoretical approaches to Byzantine literature and modern theatre.

‘This volume is admirable, both for bringing attention to such understudied short narratives, but also for paving the path for a more widespread “folkloristic turn” within the study of Late Antique and Byzantine literature as a whole.’ - Ryan Denson, University of Silesia in Katowice, in: The Medieval Review 26.04.03.

• PrefaceNotes on Editors and ContributorsIntroductionStavroula Constantinou and Andria AndreouPart 1: Tale Theory and Poetics1 The Art of Short Narrative: Toward a Theory of the Late Antique and Byzantine TaleStavroula Constantinou2 Telling a Thauma in Hagiography and ParadoxographyChristian Høgel3 To Render Unbelievable Tales Believable: the Storyworlds of ParadoxographyIngela NilssonPart 2: The Art of Storytelling4 Didactic Tales in GalenSophia Xenophontos5 Repetition and the Storyteller’s Profile in Early Byzantine Tale CollectionsStavroula Constantinou and Andria Andreou6 Circulation of Hagiographical Tales along the Incense Route: Storytelling as Technology of EnchantmentNicolò SassiPart 3: Tales in Collections7 Stunning with a List, Dazzling with a Catalogue: the Form of Paradoxographical and Christian Miracle Collections RevisitedJulia Doroszewska8 (Auto)biographical, Marvelous, and Supernatural Stories in Early Byzantine Hagiographical AnthologiesStavroula Constantinou and Andria Andreou9 Space in Edifying Stories: the Case of Anastasios SinaitesMarkéta KulhánkováGeneral Index