This paper takes its cue from the recent interest in materiality and “things” in the field of Byzantine studies, to explore the role of objects in evoking being moved. First, it advances a new model to explain the relationship between being moved and affordances. Second, it focuses on a specific case study, that is Michael Psellos’ funeral oration for his daughter Styliane (1054), who died of smallpox at the age of 9 years old. The paper sheds light on how affective affordances of an object contribute to the evocation of being moved in literary texts, working within and affecting narrative patterns. While building on the experience of ethical and spiritual principles clearly recognizable by the audience, such affordances point toward the activation of broader core values.

本文从拜占庭研究领域最近对物质性和“事物”的兴趣中汲取灵感，探索物体在唤起被移动中的作用。首先，它提出了一个新模型来解释被移动和可供性之间的关系。其次，它侧重于一个特定的案例研究，即迈克尔·普塞洛斯 (Michael Psellos) 为他 9 岁死于天花的女儿 Styliane (1054) 的葬礼演说。该论文阐明了对象的情感可供性如何促成在文学文本中被感动、在叙事模式中起作用并影响叙事模式。在建立在观众清晰可辨的伦理和精神原则的经验之上的同时，这种启示指向更广泛的核心价值观的激活。