This volume emerged from a conference held in Oxford in February 2017 under the title Transmitting and Circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds. We would like to thank the contributors for their commitment and professionalism, and to all those who assisted with, attended, or took part in the conference for creating an environment conducive to intellectual discourse and debate. We are also grateful to the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research, and Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity and the History Faculty at Oxford for their financial support in the organization of the conference.
For their contributions to the initial process of selection and peer review, we cannot thank enough: Philip Booth, Averil Cameron, Peter Frankopan, Vera von Falkenhausen Catherine Holmes, James Howard-Johnston, Ine Jacobs, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael Jeffreys, Marc Lauxtermann, Sean Leatherbury, Moujan Matin, Theo Van Lint, Jonathan Shepard, Arietta Papaconstantinou, Joshua Thomas, Ida Toth and Edward Zychowicz-Coghill. In addition, we are extremely grateful to the two anonymous reviewers at BRILL for their helpful suggestions, and to Kate Hammond and Marcella Mulder at BRILL for their help and resourcefulness throughout the process. The late Mark Whittow also dedicated his time both to the conference and peer-reviewing process, and this volume is a testament to his enthusiasm and efforts in creating and maintaining a thriving community of Late Antique and Byzantine studies at Oxford.
The Editors
Oxford, June 2019