Acknowledgments
My thanks go to the managing editor of Brill’s Companions to the Byzantine World, Wolfram Brandes, who welcomed this volume into his series, and to the authors of the individual chapters for their excellent cooperation and patience. Unfortunately not all invited scholars were able to contribute to this volume. I would also like to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their valuable suggestions; Demetra Samara who revised references and bibliographies; George Alexakis who copyedited the text of the manuscript; and the publisher’s former and current editorial staff, in particular Julian Deahl, Alessandra Giliberto and Peter Buschman, for their tireless support.