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Acting Director
Dr Katarzyna Piotrowska
Byzantine literature, twelfth-century Byzantium, and animals in Byzantine texts.
Center for Byzantine Studies / 01
Team
The people behind our research.
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Founder and Director, 2024–2025
Prof. Przemysław Marciniak
Byzantine literature and culture, satire and performance, reception studies, and the natural world.
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Dr Ryan Denson
Folklore, imaginary animals, and cultural conceptions of the supernatural and the natural environment.
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Dr Max Ritter
Byzantine conceptions of nature and marine environments, economic history, and material culture.
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(external collaborators)
Dr Lorenzo Maria Ciolfi
Greek philology and palaeography, Byzantine hagiography, and the transmission of fables and proverbs.
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(external collaborators)
Dr Tristan Schmidt
Human–animal relations, animal imagery, and Byzantine political and military culture.
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Ayşenur Mulla-Topcan
PhD student (funded by the NCN project Byzantine Cultural Entomology).