Titlebook: Emotions and Gender in Byzantine Culture; Stavroula Constantinou,Mati Meyer Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019

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Pity and Lamentation in the Authorial Personae of John Kaminiates and Anna Komnenee capture of Thessalonike and Anna Komnene’s ., she shows how the two authors used emotion to adjust the balance of power between themselves and their audiences. Kaminiates’s emotional discourse as a powerless captive constructs him as dispassionate and evokes pity from his audience, which he direct