Nevra Necipoğlu Author & Editor

Koray Durak is Associate Professor of history at Boğaziçi University, Turkey. He specialises in Byzantine-Islamic economic relations, the commercial history of Constantinople, Byzantine pharmacology and the history of Byzantine Studies in modern Turkey. His publications include ‘The commercial history of Trebizond and the region of Pontos from the seventh to the eleventh centuries’, Mediterranean Historical Review (2021), ‘Commercial Constantinople’, in The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople (2022), ‘Healing gifts: the role of diplomatic gift exchange in the movement of materia medica between the Byzantine and Islamic worlds’, in Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean (2024) and a monograph titled The Odyssey of Byzantine Studies in Turkey (2023).

Nevra Necipoğlu is Professor of history at Boğaziçi University, Turkey. She is a founding member and general secretary of the Turkish National Committee for Byzantine Studies since 2001. Her monograph Byzantium between the Ottomans and the Latins: Politics and Society in the Late Empire was published in 2009. She also edited and co-edited several books, including Byzantine Constantinople: Monuments, Topography and Everyday Life (2001), and published numerous articles on late Byzantine social and economic history, Byzantine-Seljuk and Byzantine-Ottoman relations, and the urban history of Constantinople and Thessalonike during the Palaiologan period. She is currently working on a monograph on the social topography of late Byzantine Constantinople.