1. Cyril Mango, ‘Byzantine Literature as a Distorting Mirror’, Byzantium and its Image, Variorum Collected Studies, 191 (London, 1985), ii, 3–18. See also the essays contained in Originality in Byzantine Literature, Art and Music, ed. Antony Robert Littlewood (Oxford, 1995).
2. Aristides Quintilianus and the "Harmonics" of Manuel Bryennius: A Study in Byzantine Music Theory
3. For a new edition with commentary, see Pöhlmann and West, Documents of Ancient Greek Music, 190–4.
4. See, for example, the statement on p. 642 erroneously positing ‘the replacement of the old university at Constantinople in the seventh century with a new Ecumenical college controlled by the Church’. For a more recent assessment, see Kazhdan, Alexander , ‘University of Constantinople’, The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, ed. Alexander Kazhdan et al., iii (New York and Oxford, 1991), 2143.
5. A succinct introduction to relevant developments in Byzantium's ecclesiastical sphere may be found in John Meyendorff, Byzantine Theology: Historical Trends and Doctrinal Themes (2nd rev. edn, New York, 1987), 1–78, 103–14 and passim.