Clemens GantnerClemens Gantner works and teaches at Universität Wien, Austria and the Institute for Medieval Research, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien. He is a member of the Austrian Institute of Historical Research. He is the author of the forthcming book on the perception of others in early medieval papal Rome, Freunde Roms und Völker der Finsternis, and co-editor of the acclaimed volume Visions of Community in the Post-Roman World (2012, with Walter Pohl and Richard Payne). His main research area is the history of the papacy in the early Middle Ages, and more generally Italy from 600-1000. He has also published on early medieval apocalyptic texts and on the contacts of the Latin West with Byzantium and the Islamic world. Read More Read Less