Catherine HolmesCatherine Holmes is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oxford. She is the author of books including Basil II and the Governance of Empire 976-1025 (2005) and co-editor of Literacy, Education and Manuscript Transmission in Byzantium an Beyond (2002) with J. Waring, Between Byzantines and Turks (2012) with J. Harris and The Global Middle Ages (2018) with N. Standen. Read More Read Less