According to the author of The History of Byzantine Literature, this fundamental work was supposed to cover a period of six centuries - from the 7th to the 12th centuries, but, unfortunately, Alexander Petrovich did not have time to complete it - only three parts were written in which the history of literature is brought only to the end X century. The third, last part examines the literature of the next century and a half (c. 850 - c. 1000) - the period usually called the Macedonian Renaissance or the era of Byzantine encyclopedism. The book of A.P. Kadzhan, completely unusual and innovative in its method, allows us to evaluate the literature and culture of this most interesting time in a completely new way - it creates a whole picture of Byzantine literature, traces the main trends in its development, reveals the characteristic features of the era or even an individual style, "handwriting" of Byzantine authors, many of which were previously presented as faceless epigones of the ancient tradition.