Dr. Claudia Rapp ist Professorin für Byzantinistik am Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik der Universität Wien.Matthew Kinloch is a research fellow in intellectual history at the University of Oslo, where he is leading the project "Narrative Hierarchies: Minor Characters in Byzantine and Medieval History Writing."Dirk Krausmüller has held research and teaching positions in Belfast, Cardiff, Mardin (Turkey) and Vienna. He is an expert on Byzantine religious life, especially monasticism.Dr Ekaterini Mitsiou has held research positions at the National Hellenic Research Foundation (Athens), the Göttingen Academy, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Vienna where she is a member of the ENCHANT-Project ("Entangled Charters of Anatolia").Dr Ilias Nesseris, an expert on Byzantine manuscripts and the history of education, has been a fellow of the RCAC, Koç University in Istanbul and postdoctoral researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.Dr Christodoulos Papavarnavas is a postdoctoral researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He was awarded a doctorate with honours of the Federal President of Austria (Vienna, 2019) and has taught and published on Byzantine literature.Dr. Johannes Preiser-Kapeller ist Wissenschaftler am Institut für Mittelalterforschung/Abteilung Byzanzforschung der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und Lehrbeauftragter an der Universität Wien.Dr Giulia Rossetto, Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna and Post-Doc researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, teaches and publishes on Byzantine manuscript culture, with a special focus on the Sinai.Rustam Shukurov, Visiting Scholar at the University of St Andrews, worked at Moscow State University for more than 30 years as a lecturer in Byzantine and Medieval studies. He has published widely on Byzantium, as well as Iranian and Turkic History.Dr Grigori Simeonov has been a postdoctoral researcher in Austria and Germany, and published on everyday life in Byzantium, Balkan history, Constantinople and its hinterland, maritime history, Byzantine ceremonies, medicine and pilgrimage in Byzantium.

Who moved, why and how: these issues are addressed by a representative sample of source texts in translation, accompanied by commentary and bibliography, thus shedding new light on Byzantine society.A comprehensive source-based introduction to mobility and migration in Byzantium

Who moved, why and how: these issues are addressed by a representative sample of source texts in translation, accompanied by commentary and bibliography, thus shedding new light on Byzantine society.

Mobility and migration were not uncommon in Byzantium, as is true for all societies. Yet, scholarship is only beginning to pay attention to these phenomena. This book presents in English translation a wide array of relevant source texts from ca. 650 to ca. 1450 originally written in medieval Greek: from administrative records, saints' lives and letters by churchmen to ego-documents by ambassadors and historical narratives by court historians. Each source text is accompanied by a detailed introduction, commentary and further bibliography, thus making the book accessible to both scholars and students and laying the groundwork for future research on the internal dynamics of Byzantine society.