Federico Montinaro is Research Group Leader in the Emmy Noether Programme (DFG), University of Tubingen. His previous publications include Studies in Theophanes (ed. with M. Jankowiak), Association des Amis du Centre d'Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance 2015 and A Companion to Procopius of Caesarea (ed. with M. Meier), Brill 2021.