She is a graduate of the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Ioannina. She completed her postgraduate and doctoral studies in the United Kingdom (King’s College, London and the University of Birmingham). She has published on Byzantine illuminated manuscripts and co-edited a book on Byzantine eating and dinning culture. Her research interests extend into twelfth-century imperial and aristocratic ideology as manifested in the patronage of the arts as well as the investigation of the visuality and iconicity of the script. Research Project