Medieval and Byzantine Prose Genres

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.

The accessus ad auctores ('introduction to authors') was a literary genre of the Middle Ages.

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.

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 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.

In Byzantine literature, a monody (μονῳδία, monodia) was a funerary oration, usually addressed to the deceased, praising their virtues and lamenting their death.