Luisa Andriollo is a researcher and assistant professor of Byzantine History at the Università di Pisa, Italy. Her research interests include the social and cultural history of the middle Byzantine period. She has published a monograph on imperialadministration, local societies, and the role of the aristocracy in Byzantium between the 9th and 11th centuries (in French, 2017).

Alberto Cotza is Associate Professor at the Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy. His work examines cultural and political change in medieval Italy, focusing on the evolution of historical writing in Tuscany, and has published a book on the origins and developments of historiography in Medieval Tuscany in Italian (2021).

Paolo Tomei is a researcher and assistant professor of Medieval History at the Università di Pisa, Italy. His research explores the material and symbolic structures of power, and the forms of political and social aggregation in Italy between the 6th and 13th centuries, with a focus on Tuscany. His publications include a monograph on aristocratic structures in the Lucca area (in Italian, 2019).