Contributors
JULIAN CHRYSOSTOMIDES is the Director of the Hellenic Institute, Royal Hol-
loway and Bedford New College, University of London and is Emerita Reader in Byzantine
History at the University of London. Her books include Funeral Oration on his Brother
Theodore: Manuel II Palaeologos (Thessalonike, 1985) and Monumenta Peloponnesiaca: Docu-
ments for the History of the Peloponnese in the 14th and 15th Centuries (Camberley, 1995).
HOWARD CRANE is a Professor in the Department of the History of Art at Ohio State
University. His books include The Garden of Mosques: Hafiz H
¨
useyin al-Ayvansarayi’s Guide to
the Muslim Monuments of Ottoman Istanbul (Leiden, 2000) and Risale-i Mi’mariyye: an Early
Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Treatise on Architecture (Leiden, 1987).
KATE FLEET is the Director of the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, Newnham
College, Cambridge and is Newton Trust Lecturer in Ottoman History at the Faculty of
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. Her books include European
and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State: the Merchants of Genoa and Turkey (Cambridge,
1999).
P
´
AL FODOR is Head of the Department of the Early Modern Age at the Institute
of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has published extensively on the
military and administrative organisation and the ruling elite of the Ottoman state as well
as on Ottoman political relations with Europe. His books include In Quest of the Golden
Apple: Imperial Ideology, Politics, and Military Administration in the Ottoman Empire (Istanbul,
2000), and ‘Affairs of State are Supreme’: the Orders of the Ottoman Imperial Council Pertaining to
Hungary (1544–1545, 1552) (Budapest, 2005), which he co-authored with G
´
eza D
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avid, with
whom he has also co-edited several collections of articles on Ottoman–European relations.
MACHIEL KIEL was Director of the Netherlands Archaeological Institute in Istanbul.
He is Adviser to UNESCO for Bosnia-Hercegovina and lectures on Islamic Architecture at
˙
Istanbul Teknik
¨
Universitesi. He has also worked for eighteen years as a builder and stone
cutter at the Dutch Service for Historical Monuments, thus combining academic study
with work in the archives and practical experience in building. He has written extensively
on the Ottoman Balkans and his books include Studies on the Ottoman Architecture of the
Balkans (Aldershot, 1990).
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