an original and ambitious attempt to reconstruct the history of Greek communities in southern Italy with an unusual perspective
James Morton is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he teaches courses on ancient and medieval Europe. He studied Classics at St John's College, Oxford, before obtaining an MA in Byzantine History at Queen's University in Canada in 2011, and a PhD in Byzantine and Medieval History at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2018. His research focuses on the relationship between law, religion, and cultural identity in the pre-modern Mediterranean world.