This volume is the product of too many people’s labour to produce a definitive list. However, as editors, we feel we must thank a few key people for their help with this process. First and foremost we are grateful to all the contributors for what they have produced, as well as their professionalism and patience during the process of selection and review.
The original conference, from which this volume arose, was made possible through the generous support of The Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research, The Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity, The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, and Ertegun House. The conference was organised by and thanks to the other members of the executive committee of the Oxford University Byzantine Society, David Barritt, Joseph Dawson, and Sukanya Rai-Sharma, supported by the organising committee, Lynton Boshoff, Nicholas Evans, Alasdair Grant, Mirela Ivanova, Hugh Jeffrey, Max Lau, Nicholas Matheou, Jonas Nilsson, Wiktor Ostaz, Lucy Parker, Aleksander Paradzinski, and Kristina Terpoy.
We are also grateful to members of faculty at the University of Oxford who participated in a preliminary round of peer review, particularly Phil Booth, Averil Cameron, James Howard-Johnston, Catherine Holmes, Ine Jacobs, Marek Jancoviak, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael Jeffreys, Marc Lauxtermann, Jonathan Shepard, Ida Toth, and Bryan Ward-Perkins. In this, as in many other things, we are also indebted to Mark Whittow. Mark participated with his inimitable enthusiasm in this conference, as he had at countless graduate conferences before it. His presence and the hard work that he wore so casually made Byzantine studies in Oxford the sort of community that nourished activities like this. He is sorely missed.
Finally, we would like to thank Marcella Mulder, the series editors at Brill, and the anonymous peer reviewers for their constructive advice.