Sofia Kotzabassi Author & Editor

Sofia Kotzabassi is professor in the Department of Medieval and Modern Greek Studies at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. A specialist in Byzantine philology, her publications include works on the Byzantine commentators on Aristotle. Her book "Byzantine Manuscripts from the Monasteries of Asia Minor" (in Greek) (Athens: Ephesus) was named the best publication of 2004 on Byzantine philology by the Academy of Athens. She serves on the editorial board of the Jahrbuch der Osterreichischen Byzantinistik. Nancy Patterson Sev?enko,, an independent scholar, has published on a wide variety of topics in Byzantine art, liturgy, and culture, including "Cycles of the Life of Saint Nicholas in Byzantine Art" (Turin: Bottega d'Erasmo) and "Illustrated Manuscripts of the Metaphrastian Menologion" (Chicago). Associate editor of "The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium", she also coedited "Medieval Cyprus: Studies in Art, Architecture, and History in Memory of Doula Mouriki" (Princeton). She is currently an honorary vice president of the Association Internationale des Etudes Byzantines. Don C. Skemer has been curator of manuscripts in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Princeton University Library since 1991. He is the author of "Binding Words: Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages" (Pennsylvania State University Press). His research interests are the history of the medieval book and magic, and he is currently completing a comprehensive catalogue of the Western medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library.