Spatialities of Byzantine Culture from the Human Body to the Universe

Myrto Veikou, Ph.D., (2007 Athens University / 2020 Uppsala University), is Researcher in Greek and Byzantine Studies at Uppsala University. Her research interests focus on Byzantine Spatial studies. Her most recent monograph is Spatial Paths to Holiness - Literary 'Lived Spaces' in eleventh-century Byzantine saints' Lives (forthcoming in Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia).
Ingela Nilsson, Ph.D. (2001, Gothenburg University), is Professor of Greek and Byzantine Studies at Uppsala University since 2010. Her research interests include all forms of narration and literary adaptation. Her most recent monograph is Writer and Occasion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium: The Authorial Voice of Constantine Manasses (CUP, 2021).