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Natalia Lozovsky
is a Research Associate at the Office for the History of Science and Technology
at the University of California at Berkeley. Her publications include ‘The Earth
is Our Book’: Geographical Knowledge in the Latin West, 400–1000 (Ann Arbor
2000) and over fifteen articles and book chapters.
Federico Marazzi
is Professor of Archaeology and History at Università degli Studi Suor Orsola
Benincasa in Naples. His research interests have included the church of Rome,
the excavations of San Vincenzo al Volturno, and monastic settlements in
southern Italy. His publications include The Ostrogoths from the Migration
Period to the Sixth Century: An Ethnographic Perspective, co-edited with Samuel
Barnish (Boydell 2007) and Le città dei monaci: Storia degli spazi che avvicinano
a Dio ( Jaca 2015).
Christine Radtki
is an historian and researcher at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and
the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Her previous research has
focused on the imperial representation of Ostrogothic rulers (Ein Herrscher und
seine Schreiben—die Variae Cassiodors im Rahmen der Herrschaftsdarstellung
Theoderichs des Großen, PhD diss.), while her current project aims to develop
an historical and philological commentary for the chronicle of John Malalas.
Kristina Sessa
is Associate Professor of History at The Ohio State University. Her research
focuses on the history of late antique religions and society, with particu-
lar emphasis on the intersection between classical Roman culture and early
Christianity in the late Roman West. Her current project examines the effects
of war and crisis on the formation of ecclesiastical institutions and ideals in
the West. Her publications include The Formation of Papal Authority in Late
Antique Italy: Roman Bishops and the Domestic Sphere (Cambridge 2012).
Paolo Squatriti
is Associate Professor of History and Italian at the University of Michigan. His
current research attempts to understand the transition from a Roman hege-
mony to early medieval Europe using a rural perspective that reconstructs
the role of landscapes in sustaining communities. His previous publications
include Landscape and Change in Early Medieval Italy: Chestnuts, Economy, and
Culture (Cambridge 2013) and “The Floods of 589 and Climate Change at the
Beginning of the Middle Ages: An Italian Microhistory”, Speculum 85 (2010).