Notes on Contributors
Mladen Ančić
is Professor of History at the Universities of Zadar and Zagreb. He studied history at Sarajevo and Belgrade, before completing his PhD at the University of Zagreb on the Hungarian-Croatian kingdom and Bosnia in the 14th century, the subject of his 1997 monograph Putanja klatna: Ugarsko-hrvatsko kraljevstvo i Bosna u XIV. stoljeću (The path of the pendulum. The Hungarian-Croatian kingdom and Bosnia in 14th century). His other books include a monograph on the medieval city of Jajce, as well as a book on historiography and nationalism Što “svi znaju” i što je “svima jasno”: Historiografija i nacionalizam (What “everyone knows”, and what is “clear to everyone”: Historiography and Nationalism) (2008). He is also co-editor of Imperial spheres and the Adriatic: Byzantium, the Carolingians and the Treaty of Aachen (812) (2018) with Jonathan Shepard and Trpimir Vedriš.
Ivan Basić
is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Split and has taught at the University of Zagreb. He studied history and art history at the University of Zagreb, with a PhD in medieval studies on ‘The Poleogenesis of Split at the Turn of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages’, on which he published extensively. His research interests include the late antique and medieval Adriatic, Church history, urban history, historical geography and Early Christian and medieval art. In addition to three co-authored monographs and an edited volume, his works in English include ‘Diocletian’s villa in Late Antique and Early Medieval Historiography: A Reconsideration’ (2014), ‘Spalatensia Porphyrogenitiana. Some Issues Concerning the Textual Transmission of Porphyrogenitus’ Sources for the Chapters on Dalmatia in the De administrando imperio’ (2013), ‘New evidence for the re-establishment of the Adriatic dioceses in the late eighth century’ (2018), ‘Pagan tomb to Christian church: The case of Diocletian’s mausoleum in Spalatum’ (2017), and ‘Dalmatiae, Dalmatiarum: a study in historical geography of the Adriatic’ (2017). He is Head of Chair for Ancient and Medieval History at the Department of History of his faculty, and co-founder and vice president of the Croatian Society for Byzantine Studies.
Goran Bilogrivić
is Senior Lecturer at the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Studies, Department of History. He graduated archaeology at the University of Zagreb, where he then worked as a research assistant and completed his PhD in Medieval Studies. He has published a number of papers on various early medieval topics, mostly concerned with weapons, material culture and ethnic identities.
Neven Budak
is Professor of Medieval Croatian history at the University of Zagreb, in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, where he is head of the doctoral programme in medieval sciences. He taught also at the Central European University in Budapest, in the Department of Medieval Studies. His research interests include: early medieval identities, urban history, slavery, early medieval and early modern Croatian history, and the history of historiography. Among his books are: Prva stoljeća Hrvatske (The First Centuries of Croatia) (1994); edited collections Kroatien. Landeskunde – Geschichte – Kultur – Politik – Wirtschaft – Recht (1995), and Towns and Communication, vol. I: Communication in Towns (2010).
Florin Curta
is Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology, at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He is a specialist in the history and archaeology of the Middle Ages, with a particular interest in East Central and Eastern Europe between ca. 500 and ca. 1250. He received his PhD from Western Michigan University, and has taught at the University of Florida since 1999, where he is the founding member of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies program. His first book, The Making of the Slavs (2001) was named a 2002 Choice Outstanding Academic Title and won the Herbert Baxter Adams Award of the American Historical Association in 2003. He is also the author of Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1250 (2006) and The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, c. 500 to 1050. The Early Middle Ages (2011), and editor of several volumes such as Neglected Barbarians (2011), The Other Europe in the Middle Ages. Avars, Bulgars, Khazars, and Cumans (2008), and Borders, Barriers, and Ethnogenesis. Frontiers in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (2005).
Danijel Dzino
is a Lecturer at the Departments of Ancient History and International Studies (Croatian Studies) at Macquarie University, Sydney, having obtained his PhD in Classics at the University of Adelaide. His research interests focus on ancient and early medieval Illyricum, particularly the identity transformations undergone by the indigenous population of the region in Roman and post-Roman times. Author of Becoming Slav, Becoming Croat: Identity Transformations in Post-Roman Dalmatia (2010), Illyricum and Roman Politics 229 BC–AD 68 (2010), and co-author of Rimski ratovi u Iliriku. Povijesni antinarativ (Roman Wars in Illyricum. Historical antinarrative) (2013) with Alka Domić-Kunić. Dzino also co-edited, with Ken Parry, Byzantium, its Neighbors and its Cultures (2014).
Krešimir Filipec
is Professor of Early Medieval Archaeology at the University of Zagreb, with research interests in the archaeology of early medieval Pannonia. In 2004 and 2005 he was a Head of Department for Protection of Cultural Heritage in the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, from 2009 to 2011 Head of Archaeology at the University of Zagreb, and he is the current Head of the Discipline of Medieval and National Archaeology in the same department. He is the author of numerous scholarly works, including the monograph Donja Panonija od 9. do 11. stoljeća (Lower Pannonia from 9th to 11th centuries) (2015).
Richard Hodges
is President of the American University of Rome since 2012. In 1976 he was appointed lecturer at Sheffield University and launched excavations and cultural heritage projects at Roystone Grange (Derbyshire), Montarrenti (Tuscany) and San Vincenzo al Volturno (Molise). He was Director of the British School at Rome (1988–95), and became scientific director of the Butrint Foundation to undertake excavations and site management strategies at Butrint (Albania). He was subsequently Director of the Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture (1996–98), Professor in the School of World Art Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich (1998–2017). He served in the Ministry of Culture in Albania (1999), as adviser to (and later, Board member of) the Packard Humanities Institute during the Zeugma (Turkey) excavations (2000–04), and oversaw the making of the Ottoman museum town of Gjirokastra, Albania into a World Heritage Site in 2005. He served as Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (2007–12). He was also a visiting Professor at SUNY-Binghamton (1983), the University of Siena (1984–87), the University of Copenhagen (1987–88) and the University of Sheffield (2006–08). His most recent books are The Archaeology of Mediterranean Placemaking (2016) and Travels with an Archaeologist (2017).
Nikola Jakšić
is Professor Emeritus at the University of Zadar. He is a specialist in medieval art history and archaeology, with a particular interest in early medieval sculpture, European medieval goldsmitthing and Croatian medieval topography. He is the author of over 100 publications including books such as his most recent one Klesarstvo u službi evangelizacije (Sculpture in the Service of Evangelisation) (2016). He was also the editor of the multi-volumed edition “Umjetnička baština zadarske nadbiskupije” (Art Heritage of Zadar Archbishopry).
Miljenko Jurković
archaeologist and art historian, is Professor of Late Antique and Early medieval art history at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. Currently he is Head of the Department of Art History, and Director of the International Research Centre for Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (from 1993). He is the founder and editor of academic journal Hortus Artium Medievalium (1995) and the series Dissertationes et Monographiae (2001).
Jurković has organized 30 international conferences, and coordinated numerous international research projects, and published over 200 articles and books. He is the author or co-author of several exhibitions (French Renaissance, 2005; Croatian Renaissance, 2004; Europe in the Time of the Anjou Dynasty, 2001; Croats and Carolingians, 2000). He has been awarded the Strossmayer Award for Scholarly Work (2001) and twice the Medal of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (2001, 2005). He has received the honors: Officier de l’ordre des palmes académiques (2004), Order of Lomonosov (2007) and Chevalier de l’ordre National du Mérite (2015).
Ante Milošević
is the Director of Museum of Croatian National Monuments in Split, and Editor-in-Chief of Starohrvatska prosvjeta, leading Croatian peer-refereed journal dealing with medieval archaeology and history. He is the author of numerous articles, book chapters, edited collections, and six monographs that deal with medieval history and archaeology of Dalmatia and Dalmatian hinterland. His most most recent monographs are: Arheologija Sinjskoga polja (2018), Traces of Ancient Beliefs in Early Medieval Christianity (2013), Campanilli preromanici della Dalmazia e della Croazia altomedievale (2011), La chiesa preromanica di San Salvatore a Cettina (with Ž. Peković) (2009), Croci sulle lastre di rivestimento dele tombe altomedievali nell’are di Signa (2008).
Marko Petrak
is Professor of Roman Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Zagreb, with research interests in: Ius Commune, Byzantine Law and Roman foundations of contemporary legal systems. He studied law, philosophy and classics at the University of Zagreb, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centro di studi e ricerche sui Diritti Antichi (Pavia/Italy). He is a member of the editorial board of the series Studies in the History of Private Law (Brill/Netherlands), journals Legal Roots, The International Journal of Roman Law, Legal History and Comparative Law (Napoli/Italy) and Ius Romanum (Sofia/Bulgaria). Petrak is a peer-reviewer of the European Science Foundation and member of its College of Experts.
Peter Štih
is Professor of Medieval History and Auxiliary Historical Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, a Member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research interests include early medieval Slav ethnogenesis and state formation in the eastern Alps. He has published many books and articles on the medieval history of the Alpine-Adriatic region, including Studien zur Geschichte der Grafen von Görz (1996) and The Middle Ages between the Eastern Alps and the Northern Adriatic: Select Papers on Slovene Historiography and Medieval History (2010).
Trpimir Vedriš
is Senior Lecturer at the University of Zagreb, in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, where he studied history, ethnography and philosophy. He holds a doctorate in history from his home university and another one in medieval studies from the Central European University in Budapest. He has taught Croatian medieval history and the history of Christianity at the Universities of Zagreb, Split and Dubrovnik. His research interests focus on medieval hagiography and the cult of saints, and more recently, on the formation of medieval identities, cultural memory and the modern receptions of the early Middle Ages. He is co-editor of five volumes, including Saintly Bishops and Bishops’ Saints (with John Ott, 2012) and Imperial spheres and the Adriatic: Byzantium, the Carolingians and the Treaty of Aachen (812) (with Mladen Ančić and Jonathan Shepard, 2018).