ABSTRACT
We have seen that the authors and translators of the Palaiologan romances were fully literate, self-conscious craftsmen. The previous two chapters have situated the texts of this period in relation, first, to those of their predecessors in the genre and, second, to one another and to what can be inferred about contemporary oral tradition. The focus of this chapter will be on the impact of the Palaiologan romances on other Greek literature of their time and subsequently. 1
