Acknowledgements
This annotated translation developed, in part, from research produced for the Domestic Slavery & Sexual Exploitation (DoSSE) project, which received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Unionâs Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Grant agreement No. 101001429). The principal investigator of this project is Erin Thomas Dailey, and the host institution is the University of Leicester.
I am grateful to a number of scholars who contributed to the development of this project. In particular, I thank Sebastian Brock, Adam Becker, Grigory Kessel, James Walters, Jeff Childers, David Michelson, Valentina Duca, Matteo Poiani, Adrian Pirtea, Giorgia Nicosia, Dan Batovici, Bob Kitchen, Kristian Heal, István Perczel, Chip Coakley, Hubert Kaufhold, Andy Hilkens, Giovanni Gomiero, Samer Soreshow Yohanna, Qusay Yono Simaan Ajim, André Binggeli, Flavia Ruani, Andrew Hochstedler, and Byard Bennett.
I would also like to thank David G.K. Taylor, Sergey Minov, and the two anonymous reviewers for offering helpful feedback on earlier drafts of this annotated translation.
I extend a special thanks to the editorial board (particularly Emiliano Fiori, the Editor-in-Chief) of the âEastern Christian Textsâ series for accepting and publishing this volume.
On a personal note, I am grateful to my family for their love and support. In particular, I would like to thank my wife, Pamela, for her patience and encouragement, and my sons, John and Elijah, for often bringing me back into the 21st century to play with choo choo trains and read books about little blue trucks.
Finally, I wish to express my gratitude to Phil Booth and Christian C. Sahner. Their passion for the study of Eastern Christianity and their kindness significantly impacted me. I dedicate this book to each of them.