Prof. Baukje van den Berg now has a chapter on "Eustathios’ Homeric Commentaries and Byzantine Textual Culture" published in Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Homer from Byzantium to the Enlightenment. The chapter examines how the twelfth-century scholar Eustathios of Thessalonike (c.1115–95) presents Homeric poetry. Published in November 2025, the volume as whole "examines conceptions and uses of Homeric poetry in philosophy, literature, and scholarship from the sixth to the eighteenth-century, while also including excursions into the fine arts and music in modern times".
This connects to a workshop held in November at CEU on Middle Byzantine Hermeneutics. This work-in-progress workshop brought together researchers engaged in projects related to grammatical, rhetorical, and philosophical education and scholarship in Middle Byzantium, with papers on topics as diverse as ‘Stephanos’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Rhetoric’; ‘Trachytes, taxis, and the order of the universe in Ioannes Sikeliotes’; and a session on John Tzetzes on Ancient Authorities.