Benjamin Anderson
is Associate Professor of the History of Art and Classics at Cornell University, and author of Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art (Yale University Press, 2017). His research focuses on late antique and Byzantine art and architecture, the urban history of Constantinople, and the history of archaeology.
Marie-France Auzépy
is Professor emeritus at University Paris viii. Her main publications are La Vie d’Etienne le Jeune par Etienne le Diacre (Variorum, 1997), L’hagiographie et l’iconoclasme byzantin (Ashgate, 1999), L’iconoclasme (puf, 2006), and L’histoire des iconoclastes (Paris, 2007). She focuses on the so-called “Dark Ages” from a political and religious point of view, and is also interested in the reception of Byzantium in Europe after 1453. Hair, to which she devoted a collective book, is another point of interest.
Sabine Feist
is Professor and Director of the Department of Christian Archaeology at the University of Bonn. Her main publications are Die byzantinische Sakralarchitektur der Dunklen Jahrhunderte (Reichert Verlag, 2019), and Transforming Sacred Spaces: New Approaches to Byzantine Ecclesiastical Architecture from the Transitional Period (Reichert Verlag, 2020. She focuses on late antique and Byzantine architecture, the formative role of the Christian veneration of saints in late antique and early medieval societies, and the history and development of Christian Archaeology as an academic discipline.
Mike Humphreys
is a researcher at the University of Cambridge. His main publications are: Law, Power, and Imperial Ideology in the Iconoclast Era, c.680–850 (Oxford University Press, 2015), and The Laws of the Isaurian Era: The Ecloga and its Appendices (Liverpool University Press, 2017). He focuses on Byzantium during the period c.600–900, especially on the topics of law and iconoclasm.
Robin M. Jensen
is the Patrick O’Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame (USA). Her main publications are: The Cross: History, Art, and Controversy (Harvard University Press, 2017), Living Water: Images, Symbols, and Settings of Early Christian Baptism (Brill, 2011), Face to Face: Portraits of the Divine in Early
Dirk Krausmüller
was a researcher at the Institute of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of Vienna University. His main publication is “Contextualizing Constantine v’s radical religious policies: the debate about the intercession of the saints and the ‘sleep of the soul’ in the Chalcedonian and Nestorian churches”, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 39 (2015), 25–49. He focuses on late antique and Byzantine theology, hagiography, and monasticism.
Andrew Louth
is Professor Emeritus at the University of Durham. His main publications are: St John Damascene: Tradition and Originality in Byzantine Theology (Oxford University Press, 2002) and Greek East and Latin West: the Church ad 681–1071 (St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2007). His research currently focuses on the history of the interpretation of the Six Days of Creation (the Hexaemeron) in, principally, the Christian tradition.
Thomas F. X. Noble
is the Andrew V. Tackes Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. His latest monograph is Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians (Philadelphia, 2009). He continues to work on papal history and the history of the city of Rome.
Ken Parry
is Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of History and Archaeology, Macquarie University, Sydney. He researches and publishes in the fields of late antiquity, Byzantine Studies, and Eastern Christianity. He is the author of Depicting the Word: Byzantine Iconophile Thought of the Eighth and Ninth Centuries (1996) and founding editor of the Brill series Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity. He has edited The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity (1999), The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity (2007), and The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Patristics (2015). He recently contributed to The Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium (2017) and Eastern Christianity and Late Antique Philosophy (2020).
is Professor Emeritus at Heythrop College, University of London, and Honorary Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London. His recent publications are: The Acts of the Second Council of Ephesus (787) (2018), The Council of Ephesus of 431: Documents and Proceedings, with Thomas Graumann (2020), and The Canons of the Quinisext Council (691/2) (2020), all published by Liverpool University Press. His main field of research is late antique and early Byzantine Christianity, and especially church councils.
Christian C. Sahner
is an Associate Professor of Islamic history at the University of Oxford and a fellow of St Cross College. His publications include Christian Martyrs under Islam (Princeton, 2018) and Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age (California, 2020, co-editor). He focuses on the transition from late antiquity to the Islamic Middle Ages; relations between Muslims and non-Muslims, especially Christians and Zoroastrians; and the interconnected histories of Syria, Iran, and the Islamic West.
Jesse W. Torgerson
is Assistant Professor of Letters at Wesleyan University. He has recently published The Chronographia of George the Synkellos and Theophanes: The Ends of Time in Ninth-Century Constantinople (Brill, 2022). His research focuses on the material, socio-political, and literary contexts of Byzantine accounts of the past, considering, in particular, manuscripts, narrative strategies, generic hybridity, and periodization.