Notes on Contributors
Andrea Babuin
(https://orcid.org/0009-0005-1272-967X) teaches Byzantine Art at the University of Ioannina, Greece. His research interests include Medieval Material Culture, with a special focus on costume and military accoutrements, Byzantine Sculpture, and Late Byzantine Iconography.
Timothy G. Dawson
(https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9697-4699) Having been inspired to an interest in Byzantion and its martial forms by participation in historical re-enactment, Timothy Dawson has since constantly pursued a mode of scholarship that merges traditional historical and archaeological evidence with data obtained through reconstruction, experimentation and experience.
Piotr Ł. Grotowski
(https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8710-3499) is a Byzantine art historian based in Cracow, Poland, but his studies he conducted also at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection (Washington), School of Advanced Study (SAS) of the London University, School of History and Archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and other leading centres of Byzantine studies. His academic interests are focused on the problem of visual communication in Orthodox Art with special attention to the costume studies including military gear and weapon. This topic was the subject of his Ph.D. dissertation defended in 2003 at the Jagiellonian University (published by Brill 2010). Beside theses highly theoretical problems he studies problems connected with the phenomenon of Orthodox monumental paintings commissioned by first Jagiellons in Roman-Catholic churches of Polish Kingdom (e.g. monograph of frescoes in Wiślica collegiate church published in 2020 in Polish).
Dejan Gjorgjievski
(https://orcid.org/0009-0000-7592-8864) works at the Museum of Kumanovo as a Head of Archaeological department. He is an archaeologist interested in medieval arms and armour, Late Roman and Byzantine architecture and settlements and the archaeology of Christianity. He was director of archaeological excavations at Late Antique fortress at Pcinja, Late Roman station of Vizianus and Byzantine settlement at Kostoperska Karpa. He is the editor of the book “Giving gifts to God. Evidences of votive offerings in the sanctuaries, temples and churches” 2017, as well as the author of number of articles on various subjects from Late antique and Byzantine period.
Marka Tomić
(https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4103-4886) is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Byzantine Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 2017 she obtained her doctoral degree on the field of Byzantine and Serbian Medieval Art at the University of Belgrade. Her publications include a number of articles, and a monograph about the fourteenth century painted decoration of the Church of St. Demetrius at Marko’s Monastery near Skopje in North Macedonia (The Frescoes of Marko’s Monastery, Belgrade 2019).
Mamuka Tsurtsumia
(https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9892-7810) is a Georgian historian specializing in medieval military history and military technology. His research interests extend to the Crusading movement and Georgian involvement in the Holy Land, as well as Heraldry, Phaleristics, and Vexillology. He currently serves as the head of the Georgian Heraldry and Vexillology Research Center. In 2014, he earned his PhD in history from the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. Subsequently, he published expanded PhD thesis as a monograph titled ‘Medieval Georgian Army (900–1700): Organization, Tactics, Armament’ in 2016. Among his other works are ‘Georgian Awards’ published in 2000, and ‘The Issues of Georgian Military History’, vol. 1, in 2013. His most recent monograph, released in 2019, is ‘The Ideology of War in Georgia and the Near East: Christian Holy War and Islamic Jihad’.