x notes on contributors
David Jacoby
is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the Hebrew University,
Jerusalem. He has published extensively on intercultural exchanges and
maritime trade between the West and Byzantium, the Crusader states and
Egypt in the 11th–15th centuries; medieval silk production and trade, and the
Jews in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Middle Ages. Latest collection of
studies: Travellers, Merchants and Settlers across the Mediterranean, Eleventh-
Fourteenth Centuries (Farnham, 2014). He is currently working on a book
on Crusader Acre and another on Silk and Silk Textiles in Byzantium and the
Medieval Mediterranean.
Sophia Kalopissi-Verti
is Professor Emerita of Byzantine Archaeology at the University of Athens.
She is the author, among other, of Dedicatory Inscriptions and Donor Portraits
in Thirteenth-Century Churches of Greece (Vienna, 1992), and co-editor of a
collective volume on Archaeology and the Crusades (Athens, 2007). Her
numerous articles focus on Byzantine painting, church inscriptions, artistic
and cultural interrelations between Byzantium and the West, and issues of
patronage and painters.
Peter Lock
Professor of History at York St John University, retired in August 2008. He is
the author of Franks in the Aegean (London, 1995), The Routledge Companion
to the Crusades (London, 2006), and has translated The Book of the Secrets of
the Faithful of the Cross by Marino Sanudo Torsello (Farnham, 2011). He has
edited The Archaeology of Medieval Greece (Oxford, 1996) with Guy Sanders.
Gill Page
studied Classics at Corpus Christi College Oxford before completing an MA in
Medieval History at the University of Manchester and a PhD at the University
of Leeds. Her study of medieval Greek identity was published by CUP as Being
Byzantine in 2008. Dr Page is an independent scholar and partner in the
medieval music ensemble Trouvère, for which she has edited and translated
many lyrics of the trouvères and troubadours.
Anastasia Papadia-Lala
is Professor of Early Modern Greek History at the University of Athens. She
specialises in the history of the Greek-Venetian East, 13th–18th centuries
(social history, urban communities, philanthropy and social welfare, revolts