Niels GaulNiels Gaul is A. G. Leventis Professor of Byzantine Studies and Director of the Centre for Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is currently working toward the written version of the E. A. Lowe Lectures in Paaeography 2023, provisionally entitled Manuscripts of Character: Codex, Ethos and Authority in Byzantium. His most recent books are:Centre, Province and Periphery in the Age of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos (co-edited, Harrassowitz, 2018)Thomas Magistros und die spätbyzantinische Sophistik (Harrassowitz, 2011) Read More Read Less