Notes on Contributors
Veronica della Dora
is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research spans cultural geography, the history of cartography and Byzantine studies. Her books include The Mantle of the Earth: Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and Imagining Mount Athos: Visions of a Holy Place from Homer to World War II (University of Virginia Press, 2011).
Charalambos Dendrinos
is Senior Lecturer in Byzantine Literature and Greek Palaeography. His research interests cover holiness and the sacred in different religions and traditions, and editions of unpublished texts by Byzantine authors. He has recently coedited with Ilias Giarenis the volume Bibliophilos. Books and Learning in the Byzantine World: Festschrift in Honour of Costas N. Constantinides (Byzantinisches Archiv 39) (de Gruyter, 2021) and edited the volume Imperatoris Manuelis Palaeologi Opera theologica (Corpus Christianorum, Series Graeca 71) (Brepols, 2022).
Ekaterine Gedevanishvili
is a Senior Researcher at the Giorgi Chubinashvili National Research Centre for Georgian Art History and Heritage Preservation. Her research interests and publications cover the medieval art of the Christian East, and specifically the cult and image of holy warriors, and the correlation between text and image. At present, she runs a multidisciplinary project that will result in a monograph on the cult of the Holy Warriors in Georgia.
Molly Greene
is Professor of History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University. Her books include The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1453 to 1768: The Ottoman Empire (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean (Princeton University Press, 2010) and A Shared World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Princeton University Press, 2000).
Mark Guscin
is a Research Associate of the Hellenic Institute of Royal Holloway, University of London and a freelance writer. His research interests focus on the Face in Christian art and hagiography, Byzantine history and iconography. He is the author of The Tradition of the Image of Edessa (Cambridge Scholars, 2016), The Image of Edessa (Brill, 2009) and The History of the Sudarium of Oviedo (Edwin Mellen Academic Press, 2004).
Revd Antonios (Christos) Kakalis
is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Newcastle. His recent books include Place Experience of the Sacred: Silence and Pilgrimage Topography of Mount Athos (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024) and Architecture and Silence (Routledge, 2020), and as a co-editor, Mountains and Megastructures: Neo-Geologic Landscapes of Human Endeavour (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), The Place of Silence: Architecture / Media / Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Mountains, Movements, Mobilities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
Chrysovalantis Kyriacou
is Lecturer in Ecclesiastical History at the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus and a Research Associate of the Hellenic Institute of Royal Holloway, University of London. His research interests and publications span Byzantine and post-Byzantine history and culture in the Eastern Mediterranean, and particularly Cyprus under Latin rule. He is the author of Orthodox Cyprus under the Latins, 1191–1571: Society, Spirituality, and Identities (Lexington Books, 2018).
Maria Litina
is a Researcher of the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation and the Centre for History and Paleography, Athens. Her research interests and publications focus on Balkan history and historiography (19th–20th centuries), Greek-Bulgarian relations, and the presence of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem in the Balkans.
Revd Andrew Louth
is Professor Emeritus of Patristic and Byzantine Studies, University of Durham, Honorary Fellow of the St Irenaeus Orthodox Theological Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Fellow of the British Academy, and Archpriest of the Diocese of Sourozh. His publications include Denys the Areopagite (1989), Maximus the Confessor (1996), and St John Damascene (2002), and, more recently: Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology (2013) and Modern Orthodox Thinkers (2015).
Mihail Mitrea
is a Researcher in Byzantine philology at the Institute for South-East European Studies of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest, and a Lecturer in Byzantine studies at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. His research interests and publications span late Byzantine literature, hagiography, epistolography, theology, Greek palaeography, manuscript studies and textual criticism. He has recently edited the volume Holiness on the Move: Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography (Routledge, 2023).
Bissera Pentcheva
is Professor of Medieval Art at Stanford University. Her work is informed by anthropology, music, and phenomenology focusing on the changing appearance of objects and architectural spaces. She is the author of Icons and Power: The Mother of God in Byzantium (2010), The Sensual Icon: Space, Ritual, and the Senses in Byzantium (2010), and Hagia Sophia: Sound, Space, and Spirit in Byzantium (2017) (all published by Penn State University Press).
Rehav Rubin
is Professor of Geography at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His research interests and publications lie in historical geography and the history of cartography and mapping, mainly the Holy Land. His books include Stories Told by the Mountains: Cultural Landscape through Time (Resling, 2018), Portraying the Land: Hebrew Maps of the Land of Israel from Rashi to the Early 20th Century (de Gruyter, 2018) and Image and Reality: Jerusalem in Maps and Views (Magnes Press, 1999).
Revd David John Williams
is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research interests focus on Byzantine spirituality, sacred materialities, cross religious dialogue, shared sacred spaces and syncretism.