Notes on Contributors
Thomas Johann Bauer
is Professor of New Testament Exegesis at the University of Erfurt and academic director of the Vetus Latina Institute, Beuron. He specializes in early Christian literature in the context of Greco-Roman religion and culture, and in the history of the Latin Bible. His recent publications include Das tausendjährige Messiasreich der Johannesoffenbarung (Berlin, 2007), Paulus und die kaiserzeitliche Epistolographie (Tübingen, 2011) and Who is who in der Welt Jesu (Freiburg, 2013).
Alexander Beihammer
(PhD Vienna) is Professor of Byzantine History at the University of Notre Dame. He has published on Byzantine diplomatics and on relations between Byzantium, the Frankish East, and the Muslim world. His most recent monograph is Byzantium and the Emergence of Muslim-Turkish Anatolia, ca. 1040–1130 (Routledge, 2017).
Floris Bernard
is an assistant professor at Ghent University. His research interests include Byzantine poetry and epistolography. He is the author of Writing and Reading Byzantine Secular Poetry, 1025–1081 (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis
is Associate Professor of Classics and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University. His research focuses on Byzantine rhetoric, historiography, criticism and aesthetics, letter-writing, and the reception and transmission of Classical texts in the Middle Ages. He is the author of Not Composed in a Chance Manner: The Epitaphios for Manuel I Komnenos by Eustathios of Thessalonike (Uppsala University Press, 2017).
Carolina Cupane
is a lecturer at the University of Vienna and Senior Research Fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on Byzantine vernacular literature, Byzantine narrative, comparative literature, cultural studies, and cultural mobility and migration of narrative motifs between East and West. She is the editor of the Brill companion Fictional Storytelling in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond (with Bettina Krönung; 2016).
Niels Gaul
is A.G. Leventis Professor of Byzantine Studies in the University of Edinburgh and currently the PI of an ERC Consolidator Grant, “Classicizing Learning in Medieval Imperial Systems: Cross-cultural Approaches to Byzantine Paideia and Tang/Song Xue” (2017–2022). He most recently co-edited a volume on Center, Province and Periphery in the Age of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos.
Cecily J. Hilsdale
is Associate Professor of Medieval Art History at McGill University. She specializes in cultural exchange in the medieval Mediterranean and her recent publications include Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Sofia Kotzabassi
is Professor of Medieval Greek at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research interests include Byzantine rhetoric and epistolography, historiography and prosopography, and Greek paleography. Her recent publications include Das hagiographische Dossier der heiligen Theodosia von Konstantinopel (De Gruyter, 2009) and Greek Manuscripts at Princeton. A Descriptive Catalogue (with Nancy Ševčenko, Princeton, 2010).
Florin Leonte
is an assistant professor at the University of Olomouc, Czech Republic where he teaches Greek language and literature. His main interests are Byzantine rhetoric, literature, and social history. His first monograph is titled Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium: Manuel II Palaiologos and Rhetoric in Purple (Edinburgh University Press, 2019).
Divna Manolova
is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Medieval Literature (University of Southern Denmark and University of York). Her research deals with Byzantine intellectual history and, in particular, with the history of science and philosophy. Most recently, she has embarked on the history of emotions and on the cognitive function of cosmological diagrams in medieval Greek manuscripts.
Stratis Papaioannou
is Professor of Byzantine Literature at the University of Crete and works on rhetorical and narrative traditions as well as book culture in Byzantium. His most recent publications include Christian Novels from the Menologion of Symeon Metaphrastes (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, 2017) and Michael Psellos on Literature and Art (with Charles Barber, 2017). His critical edition of Michael Psellos’ letter collection appeared in 2019 with De Gruyter.
Johannes Preiser-Kapeller
is a senior research associate at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He specializes in the history of Byzantium and the medieval Mediterranean in a global perspective as well as in historical network analysis and complexity studies. His recent publications include Jenseits von Rom und Karl dem Großen. Aspekte der globalen Verflechtung in der langen Spätantike, 300–800 n. Chr. (Vienna, 2018) and (as editor, with Ch. Gastgeber and E. Mitsiou) The Patriarchate of Constantinople in Context and Comparison (Vienna, 2017).
Alexander Riehle
is Assistant Professor of the Classics at Harvard University. His research focuses on late Byzantine epistolography and rhetoric. He is currently preparing an edition and translation of the letter-collections of Nikephoros Choumnos (De Gruyter, anticipated 2021).
Jack Tannous
is an assistant professor in the History Department at Princeton University. His research focuses on the Syriac-speaking Christian communities of the Near East in the late antique and early medieval period. He is the author of The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers (Princeton University Press, 2018).
Lena Wahlgren-Smith
is Lecturer in Ancient and Medieval Studies at the University of Southampton, UK. Her research focuses on Medieval and post-Medieval Latin literature. She has recently produced a critical edition and translation of the letter collections of Nicholas of Clairvaux (Oxford University Press, 2018).