Notes on Contributors
Julian Baker
is curator of medieval and later coins at the Ashmolean Museum, University
of Oxford. His doctoral thesis (Birmingham, 2002) dealt with medieval Greek
numismatics. Dr Baker has published on the monetary history of medieval
Italy, Greece, Turkey, and the Balkans.
Nikolaos G. Chrissis
(PhD London) is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Athens.
He has taught history at the universities of London and Birmingham. His
main interests revolve around Byzantine-western interaction, the crusades,
the papacy, and Byzantine identity. His publications include the monograph
Crusading in Frankish Greece: A Study of Byzantine-Western Relations and
Attitudes, 1204–1282 (Turnhout, 2012), while he also co-edited the volume
Contact and Conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean, 1204–1453 (Farnham,
2014).
Nicholas Coureas
works as a Senior Researcher at the Cyprus Research Centre in Nicosia on the
history of Lusignan Cyprus (1191–1473). He has published various articles and
books on this subject, including the monograph The Latin Church in Cyprus
1195–1312 (Aldershot, 1997) and its sequel The Latin Church of Cyprus 1313–
(Nicosia, 2010).
Charalambos Gasparis
is Research Director of the Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic
Research Foundation, Athens, Greece. He is a specialist in the Venetian
domination in the Greek territories during the Late Middle Ages. He has
published books and articles on rural society and the economy, commerce
and city life in Crete and other Venetian colonies in the Aegean. He has also
edited Latin sources concerning Venetian Crete from 13th to 15th century.
Maria Georgopoulou
is the Director of the Gennadius Library at the American School of Classical
Studies in Athens. Her publications focus on the artistic and cultural interac-
tions of Mediterranean peoples in the Middle Ages and include Venice’s
Mediterranean Colonies: Architecture and Urbanism (Cambridge, 2001).