Scholarly Friendship in the Thirteenth Century: Patriarch Gregorios II Kyprios and Theodora Raoulaina

The twenty-nine letters of Gregorios II Kyprios to the protovestiarissa Theodora Raoulaina constitute one of the most numerous groups of his correspondence and provide a complete picture of friendship between intellectuals in the late Byzantine period. The article provides an edition of and commentary on all of them (for twenty-three of them this is the first edition).