The Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Relations in the Byzantine World

This book offers an in-depth survey of the relationships between humans and non-human animals in the Byzantine empire.

Przemyslaw Marciniak is a Research Professor and the Director of the Center for Byzantine Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. His research focuses on Byzantine performative culture, the reception of Byzantium, and recently on animals and nature in the Byzantine world. His publications include articles on Byzantine entomology and a co-edited volume on the reception of Byzantium in the popular imagination.

Tristan Schmidt is Assistant Professor at the Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, Poland. His research is focused on human-nature relations in the Byzantine world as well as on the aristocracy and military leadership between the 11th and 13th centuries in Byzantium. His animal-related publications include a monograph on animal imagery in Byzantine political discourse, studies on concepts of animal agency in Byzantine texts and on ecological awareness in Byzantine society.