Charis Messis holds a PhD in Byzantine Studies from Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and a habilitation from the Sorbonne University. He is now teaching Byzantine literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. His research interests concern Byzantine history and literature, especially the history of gender, along with other social and anthropological aspects of the Byzantine world. He is author and co-editor of several books and articles, including Storytelling in Byzantium: Narratological approaches to Byzantine texts and Images, edited by C. Messis, M. Mullett, and I. Nilsson (2018). Mati Meyer received her Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and is a faculty member at the Open University of Israel. She has published extensively in articles, a monograph and co-edited books on women, realia, emotions, corporeality, gender and sexuality, and biblical reception in Byzantine art, including: Emotions and Gender in Byzantine Culture, edited by Mati Meyer and Stavroula Constantinou (2018) and Between Judaism and Christianity: Art-historical essays in honor of Elisheva (Elisabeth) Revel Neher, edited by Katrin Kogman-Appel and Mati Meyer (2009).