Byzantine ecocriticism: women, nature, and power in the medieval Greek romance

'Byzantine Ecocriticism' applies literary ecocriticism to the imaginative fiction of the Greek world from the 12th to 15th centuries.

Through analyses of hunting, gardening, bride-stealing, and warfare, Byzantine Ecocriticism exposes the attitudes and behaviours that justified human control over women, nature, and animals; the means by which such control was exerted; and the anxieties surrounding its limits.

Adam Goldwyn thus demonstrates the ways in which intersectional ecocriticism, feminism, and posthumanism can be applied to medieval texts, and illustrates how the legacies of medieval and Byzantine environmental practice and ideology continue to be relevant to contemporary ecological and environmental concerns.