Prose genres of the Middle Ages and the Byzantine world, including epistolography, the accessus ad auctores, the ars poetriae, question and answer literature, mirrors for princes and the Byzantine monody. A genre belongs here when its cited article places it in medieval, Byzantine or late antique literature. The group sits within the Nonfiction and Documentary Prose subcategory of the genre roster and gathers the genres of this kind that the atlas already records, so that a reader can browse related genres together and compare how each one is defined.
Medieval and Byzantine Prose Genres
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Wikipedia: Epistolography
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Epistolography, or the art of writing letters, is a genre of Byzantine literature similar to rhetoric that was popular with the intellectual elite of the Byzantine age.
Wikipedia: Accessus ad auctores
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The accessus ad auctores ('introduction to authors') was a literary genre of the Middle Ages.
Ars poetriae (Wikipedia)
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The Latin term ars poetriae ("art of poetry", plural artes poetriae) refers both to the medieval theory of poetic composition and to a genre of technical treatise on the same.
Question-and-answer literature (Wikipedia)
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Erotapokriseis (Greek: ἐρωταποκρίσεις, lit. 'questions and answers'), singular erotapokrisis (ἐρωταπόκρισις), or question-and-answer literature, is a genre of Byzantine and late antique literature.
Mirrors for princes - Wikipedia
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Mirrors for princes or mirrors of princes (Latin: specula principum) are books that most frequently take the form of textbooks for the instruction of monarchs on successful governance and behavior.
Monody (lament) - Wikipedia
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In Byzantine literature, a monody (μονῳδία, monodia) was a funerary oration, usually addressed to the deceased, praising their virtues and lamenting their death.
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