Tiana Blazevic is in her final months of her PhD in Medieval History at Macquarie University. Her work uses sociological research methods to analyse 13-14th century medical texts on epilepsy. Her work offers new models of categorisation for epilepsy treatments—diagnostic, prevention/intervention, and celestial materiality—to reflect medieval understandings of diseases and demons in the medieval period. 

Ryan Denson is Assistant Professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, working as part of the NCN-funded project “Beyond the Sacred: Conceptions of Nature in Byzantium (4th–15th centuries)”. His research focuses on folklore and cultural conceptions of the supernatural, imaginary animals, and the natural environment in the ancient Greco-Roman and Byzantine worlds.

Charlotte Spence is a lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Oxford. She completed her PhD at the University of Exeter, which examined the conceptions of the dead and the gods in ancient curse tablets. Before that, Charlotte studied Ancient History at the University of Birmingham. Her research continues to be on ancient curse inscriptions. She is currently working on her next monograph, which focuses on the use of Jewish and Christian powers in curse tablets in Late Antiquity.