Machine generated contents note: 1.Byzantine Studies in an Age of Environmental Crisis -- 2.Zoomorphic and Anthomorphic Metaphors in the "Proto-Romance" Digenis Akritis -- 3.Rape, Consent, and Ecofeminist Narratology in the Komnenian Novels -- 4.Witches and Nature Control in the Palaiologan Romances and Beyond -- 5.Byzantine Posthumanism: Autopoiesis, Sympoiesis, and Making Kin in the Gardens of Romance.