Acknowledgments
We thank the managing editor of Brill’s Companions to the Byzantine World, Wolfram Brandes, who accepted to include this volume to his new series, and the authors of the individual chapters for their cooperation and patience. Unfortunately, not all invited scholars were able to contribute to this volume.
Further thanks goes to the former and current editorial staff, in particular Julian Deahl, Irini Argirouli, Alessandra Giliberto and Lloyd Cabasag, for their tireless support, and to Michael Mulryan for having copyedited all texts.
Finally, we thank the anonymous peer reviewer for his critical discussion of the contributions and a number of valuable suggestions.