ABSTRACT
The following chapter explores the construction of cultural and cross-cultural identities and interactions in Byzantine romance literature from a combined global and Life Course perspective. It questions the meaning of ‘Byzantine’ as an ethnocultural designation and examines how various markers of identity – age, gender, social status, and ethnicity – influence the creation of multifarious, shifting identities, which informed the Byzantines’ sense of place within their social world, as well as the global setting beyond the empire’s frontiers.
