Notes on Contributors
Hans Bloemsma
Ph.D. (2006), is associate professor of art history at University College Roosevelt, Middelburg. His publications include: “Byzantine Art and Early Italian Painting” (2013) and “Challenging the Vasarian Paradigm: Carl Friedrich von Rumohr and Early Italian Painting” (2016).
Elena Boeck
Ph.D. (2003), Yale, is professor of history of art and architecture at DePaul University. Her publications, including Imagining the Byzantine Past (2015), explore intellectual exchange in the Mediterranean and unconventional, fascinating forms of engagement with Byzantium’s legacy.
Averil Cameronwas professor of late antique and Byzantine history at Oxford and Warden of Keble College, and has published numerous books and articles on late antiquity and Byzantium, including Byzantine Matters (2014) and Arguing it Out (2016).
Elsa Fernandes Cardoso
M.A. (2015), University of Lisbon, is Ph.D. grantee and teaching assistant at the Centre for History of that same university. Her research focuses on al-Andalus and its relations with other Mediterranean powers, such as the Byzantine Empire.
Cristian Caselli
Ph.D. (2010), University of Pisa, is lecturer in history of Italy and Spain at the University of Göttingen. He has published studies on the relations between Renaissance Italy and the Ottoman empire, including a critical edition of Nicholas Sagundinus’ account on the fall of Constantinople (2012).
Evangelos Chrysos
Ph.D. (1963), Bonn, is emeritus professor of Byzantine history at the University of Athens. His research focuses on the international and diplomatic history of Byzantium, the political and ecclesiastical administration and the procedures of Church councils.
Ph.D. (2016), University of Thessaloniki, is professor at the Hellenic Open University. He has published monographs and articles on Byzantine literature and the reception of Byzantium in modern Greece, including a critical edition of Constantine Manasses’ Hodoiporikon.
Penelope Mougoyianni
is a Ph.D. candidate in Byzantine archaeology and art at the University of Athens. She is currently preparing her Ph.D. thesis: Byzantine Southern Italy (876–1071). Art, Cult and Ideology on the Western Frontier.
Daphne Penna
Ph.D. (2012), University of Groningen, is assistant professor in legal history at the University of Groningen. She has published a comparative legal study on Byzantium and the Italians (2012) and is currently working on Byzantine legal commentaries of the 11th and 12th century and on Byzantine maritime law.
Marko Petrak
Ph.D. (2003), is postdoctoral fellow at the Centro di studi e ricerche sui Diritti Antichi (Pavia), and full professor of Roman law at the University of Zagreb. He has published extensively on Roman Law and its traditions, including Nobile hoc Romani Imperii monumentum: Laudes imperiales in Byzantine Dalmatia (2016).
Matthew Savage
Ph.D. (2008), University of Vienna, is assistant professor of art history and Director of the Hans Buchwald Library and Archive at Louisiana State University. His research and publications focus primarily on Middle Byzantine art and architecture.
Daniëlle Slootjes
Ph.D. (2004), Chapel Hill, is associate professor of Ancient History at the Institute of Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen. She has published extensively on late antique Roman administration, geography, the history of early Christianity and crowd behavior in the period of Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Empire.
Karen Stock
Ph.D. (2005), the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, is professor of art history at Winthrop University. Her publications include essays on Edgar
Alex Rodriguez Suarez
Ph.D. (2014), King's College London, is an independent scholar. He has co-edited the monograph on the Byzantine Emperor John ii Komnenos (2016). His current research focuses on bell ringing in Byzantium and the Balkans.
Mariëtte Verhoeven
Ph.D. (2010), Radboud University Nijmegen, is postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen. Her research focuses on the cultural history of early Christian and Byzantine architecture. She has published on Ravenna, Jerusalem and Istanbul.