Notes on Contributors
William Adler
is Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at North Carolina State University. He works in early Judaism and Christianity, with a specialization in Christian historiography. His publications include: The Chronography of George Synkellos, with Paul Tuffin (Oxford 2002); Iulius Africanus, Chronographiae: The Extant Fragments, with Martin Wallraff (Berlin 2007); The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World, ed. vol. 2 (Cambridge University Press 2013, repr. 2018).
Thomas M. Banchich
is Professor emeritus of Classics at Canisius College, Buffalo, New York. His principal research interests are history and historiography. He is the author of The History of Zonaras (2nd corrected ed., New York 2019) and The Lost History of Peter the Patrician (New York 2015).
Albrecht Berger
is Professor of Byzantine Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, and editor in chief of the Byzantinische Zeitschrift. His publications include: Untersuchungen zu den Patria Konstantinupoleos (Bonn 1988); Accounts of Medieval Constantinople. The Patria (Cambridge, Mass. 2013); Nicephori Callisti Xanthopuli Historia Ecclesiastica, vol. I, Libri 1–6 (CFHB 57/1, Vienna 2022).
R. W. Burgess
obtained his doctorate from Wolfson College, Oxford and has taught in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa since 1989. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and has written many books, articles, chapters, and encyclopedia entries on late Roman history and historiography, especially chronicles.
John Burke
John Burke is a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He is translating Kedrenos and has published on Byzantine and post-Byzantine Greek manuscripts and their transmission.
Réka Forrai
received her PhD in Medieval Studies at the Central European University in Budapest in 2008 and is currently Associate Professor at the Centre for Medieval Literature at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense. She has published extensively on questions related to medieval Greek-Latin translation theory and practice. Her current research focuses on papal involvement in the spreading of Greek culture in the West during the Middle Ages.
Christian Gastgeber
Doz PhD (2001), is Research Group Leader at the Division of Byzantine Studies of the Institute for Medieval Studies (IMAFO) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Vienna. He is the editor of the Register of the Patriarchate of Constantinople; he is preparing the new critical edition of the Chronicon Paschale. His recent publications include a commentary on the new facsimile edition of the Greek Vienna Genesis (Luzern 2019).
Martin Hinterberger
is Professor of Byzantine Philology at the University of Cyprus. His research interests include emotions in Byzantine literature and society, the language of Byzantine literature, theoretical approaches to Byzantine literature. He is the author of Autobiographische Traditionen in Byzanz (Vienna 1999); Phthonos. Mißgunst, Neid und Eifersucht in der byzantinischen Literatur (Wiesbaden 2013), the editor of The Language of Byzantine Learned Literature (Turnhout 2014), and co-editor of Metaphrasis in Byzantine Literature (Turnhout 2021).
Marek Jankowiak
holds a doctorate in Byzantine History from the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris) and the University of Warsaw. He was the Co-Investigator of the “Dirhams for Slaves” project (Oxford 2013–17), then Associate Professor of Byzantine History at the University of Oxford (2018–23), and now works at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. His interests concern mainly the early and middle Byzantine periods and include theological controversies, historiography, and administrative history.
Ralph-Johannes Lilie
holds a doctorate from the University of Munich (1975) and was Distinguished Professor at the Free University of Berlin (1984–2005). From 1992 to 2007 he directed the Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit (PmbZ) project at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Among his books are Byzanz. Das zweite Rom (Berlin 2003), Byzanz und die Kreuzzüge (Stuttgart 2004), and Byzanz: Geschichte des oströmischen Reiches 326–1453 (München 52010).
Athanasios Markopoulos
is Professor emeritus of Byzantine Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His research interests include Byzantine chronography, historiography, and epistolography as well as Byzantine education and intellectual life under the Macedonian dynasty. Among his monographs are Anonymi professoris epistulae (CFHB 37, Berlin/New York 2000), History and literature of Byzantium in the 9th–10th centuries (Variorum reprints, Ashgate 2004).
Mischa Meier
is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Tübingen. His research interests concern Greek History (esp. Sparta), the early Principate and Late Antiquity. Among his monographs are Das andere Zeitalter Justinians (22004), Anastasios I. (22010) and Geschichte der Völkerwanderung (82021).
Federico Montinaro
is Research Group Leader in the Emmy-Noether Program at the University of Tübingen. He has published extensively in the field of Byzantine history and historiography. He has co-edited Studies in Theophanes with Marek Jankowiak (CRHCB, 2015) and A Companion to Procopius of Caesarea with Mischa Meier (Brill 2022).
Diether Roderich Reinsch
is Professor emeritus of Byzantine Studies at the Free University of Berlin. He specializes in Byzantine philology; his recent publications include the critical edition of Michael Psellos Chronographia (Millennium-Studien 51, Berlin/Boston 2014) and (with Ljuba H. Reinsch-Werner) Dukas. Chronographia. Byzantiner und Osmanen im Kampf um die Macht und das Überleben (1341–1462), Griechisch-deutsch (Sammlung Tusculum, Berlin/Boston 2020).
Fabian Schulz
holds a doctorate in Ancient History from the Free University of Berlin and École normale supérieure, Paris and is a Principal Investigator at the University of Tübingen. His research interests include historiography, politics and mentalities in Ancient Greece and Late Antiquity. He has co-edited the volume Die Weltchronik des Johannes Malalas: Autor – Werk – Überlieferung (Malalas Studien 1, Stuttgart 2016). Among his books are Oriente und Okzidente in der frühen Spätantike: Räume, Vorstellungen, Kontakte (Habilitationsschrift, University of Tübingen 2022).
Roger Scott
is a Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He is translating Kedrenos and has published on Byzantine chronicles and early Byzantine history.
Raimondo Tocci
holds a doctorate in Byzantine Philology from the University of Hamburg and has been teaching Byzantine Philology and Palaeography since 2003, first at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, and today at the Democritus University of Thrace. He has published on reading, writing, and copying Byzantine chronicles, including Theodore Skoutariotes, Chronica (Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae 46, Berlin 2015) and Lesen und Schreiben im Freirand (in Anekdota Byzantina, Byzantinisches Archiv 41, Berlin 2023). He is preparing the Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts of Vatopedi Monastery.
Paul Tuffin
was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Adelaide. He is translating Kedrenos. His publications include a translation with William Adler of George Synkellos’ Chronography.
Staffan Wahlgren
is Professor of Classical Philology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. He has prepared the critical edition of Symeon the Logothete’s Chronicle (CFHB 44/1, Berlin/New York 2006). His recent publications include a translation of the same chronicle (The Chronicle of the Logothete, Translated Texts for Byzantinists 7, Liverpool 2019) with commentary and indices.
Varvara Zharkaya
Varvara Zharkaya is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities of the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. She received her degree of Candidate of Philology from the Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2013. She specializes in Byzantine literature and her recent publications include: “‘Ne nadevai masku druga, no sudi bespristrastno’: Agiograficheskie trudy Konstantina Akropolita v ego perepiske” [On Constantine Akropolites’ Hagiographic Oeuvre in his Letters] (Vizantiiskii vremennik 100, 75, 2016, 129–44, with Lev Lukhovitskiy), “Challenged Harmony: Byzantine Dispute over the Form of the Universe” (Micrologus 25, 2017, 37–46).