To the Memory of Anthony D. Smith (19392016)
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List of Contributors
Emma Aston is Associate Professor of Classics, University of Reading. She is a specialist in Greek religion and in the history and culture of northern Greece from the Archaic age to the second century BC. She is author of Mixanthropoi: Animal-Human Hybrid Deities in Greek Religion (2011), which explores the Greek depiction of deities in part-animal form. She is currently writing a book on ancient Thessaly, famous for its excellent cavalry, and her article on this subject, in the journal Historia , is called Battlefield and Racetrack: The role of horses in Thessalian Society (2018). It is co-authored with Joshua Kerr and is the product of a UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme) project which commenced in 2014.
Dr Matthew Bennett, FSA (London), FRHistS , taught at The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (1984-2014). The focus of his research is the ethos and practice of warfare in the High Middle Ages, especially chivalry, largely through the medium of Old French literature. Publications include: Campaigns of the Norman Conquest (2001), the Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare: the Middle Ages 768-1497 , with N.H. Hooper (1996), Medieval World at War (2009) and Medieval Hostageship c. 700-c. 1500: hostage, captive, prisoner of war, guarantee, peacemaker , with K.A. Weikert (2016), together with over two dozen articles and chapters in peer-reviewed journals and volumes of essays.
Steven Grosby is Professor of Religion at Clemson University, USA. Among his works are, Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction (2005), Biblical Ideas of Nationality: Ancient and Modern (2002) and the edition and translation of Hans Freyer, Theory of Objective Mind: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Culture .
Katherine Harloe is Associate Professor of Classics and Intellectual History at the University of Reading. As well as having published numerous book chapters and articles on the influence of antiquity within the modern world, she is the author of Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity (2013) and co-editor of Thucydides and the Modern World (2012) and Hellenomania (2018). She is joint editor of International Journal of the Classical Tradition.
Beatrice Heuser is Professor of International Relations at the University of Glasgow. She is a specialist in Strategic and Military Studies, and has worked as Consultant at NATO. Her books include, Reading Clausewitz (2002), The Strategy Makers (2010) containing translations of early texts, and Strategy Before Clausewitz (2017). She is keenly interested in myths invoked in foreign policy making, treated in (edited, with Cyril Buffet) Haunted by History (1998).
Catherine Lglu is Professor of medieval French and Occitan literature at the University of Reading, UK. She obtained her PhD from Cambridge and has held posts at Queens University, Belfast, and at the University of Bristol. She has published extensively on medieval lyric, satirical, didactic, and moralising texts, as well as on questions of linguistic and visual translation. Her publications include, Multilingualism and Mother Tongue in medieval French, Occitan and Catalan narratives (2010), The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade: A Sourcebook (edited with Rebecca Rist and Claire Taylor, 2013) and Samson and Delilah in Medieval Insular French Texts and Images: Translation and Adaptation (Palgrave, 2018).
Athena S. Leoussi is Associate Professor in European History at the University of Reading. She is a founder of The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, based at LSE, and the journal, Nations and Nationalism. She has published extensively on the role of the visual arts in nation-building and the influence of the classical Greek cult of the body in re-defining modern European national identities. She was one of the organisers of the British Museums exhibition, Defining Beauty (2015). Her publications include, Nationalism and Classicism (1998), the Encyclopaedia of Nationalism (Transaction, 2001) and Nationalism and Ethnosymbolism (edited with Steven Grosby, 2006).
Matthew Nicholls is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Reading where he works on ancient books, libraries, architecture and cities in the Graeco-Roman world. He is particularly interested in the digital reconstruction of ancient spaces, including an award-winning digital model of Ancient Rome. His publications include, apart from numerous journal articles and book chapters, the two books on ancient Rome (2014) and ancient Greece (2016) that he has edited for the series 30-Second Books.
Eric Sangar is a FNRS research fellow based at the University of Namur (Belgium) and an associate researcher at the Centre Emile Durkheim of Sciences Po Bordeaux. He is currently working on the links between collective memory and uses of history in strategic narratives, on the mobilization of emotions in the justification of violence, and on the influence of NGOs on conflict discourses. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. The book version of his PhD thesis, entitled Historical Experience: Burden or Bonus in Todays Wars? The British Army and the German Bundeswehr in Afghanistan, was published in 2014. He has recently co-edited the volume Researching Emotions in International Relations and has published articles in various journals, including the Journal of Strategic Studies, Political Psychology, and Contemporary Security Policy.
