Experiencing the Byzantine Text, Experiencing the Byzantine Tent

The editors of this volume cleverly left their contributors plenty of scope in which to address their concerns. Textual scholars can look at reception theory or reader-response criticism, ¹ art historians can address ‘the viewer’s part’ or phenomenology, ² we are urged to think about sensory perception, ³ and to engage with the affective and emotive aspects of life in Byzantium. ⁴ There is also scope for considering modern experience of life in Byzantium, just as valid as Byzantine experience.