Research

My research starts from the micro-historical level by situating cultural products in their socio-cultural context and fans out to encompass the endlessly interconnected medieval world. My work entails crossing traditional disciplinary boundaries between social, art, and literary history, as well as bridging the cleavage that separates the study of Byzantium from West European and East Asian Medieval Studies. Posing hard but vital research questions, I adopt, adapt, and combine digital and traditional methods as suited for the limited data from the medieval world. I have penned two monographs and twenty-four articles, and edited two major collaborative volumes with primary sources on Byzantium and a further book on manifestations of classicisms across medieval Eurasia.