Wawrzyniec Kowalski Editor

Emil Hilton Saggau, Ph.D., is a Danish church historian working as a research fellow at Lund University, Sweden. He graduated from the University of Copenhagen in 2020, with a thesis on the Orthodox historiography of former Yugoslavia, and has continued to publish on saints and cults in Southeastern Europe. His main interest is Southeast European history and religion – in particular, the region’s connections with Byzantium.

Wawrzyniec Kowalski, PhD., is an assistant professor at the Institute of History, University of Wrocław, Poland. He has worked extensively on the nation-making process in Central Europe between c. 500 and c. 1300. His landmark study The Kings of the Slavs: The Image of a Ruler in the Latin Text of ‘The Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja’ was published in 2021.

Mihai Dragnea, PhD, is an associate researcher at the University of South-Eastern Norway and the president of the Balkan History Association. His interests include cultural, social and political relations between Germans, Scandinavians and Slavs during the High Middle Ages, the Viking Age, Slavic identity and state formation , Wallachian and Vlach identity as well as ethnicity and conflict in the Balkans.