Jonathan Shepard was for many years a Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge, and was a Fellow of Selwyn College and of Peterhouse. He is the co-editor (with Simon Franklin) of Byzantine Diplomacy (1992), co-author (also with Simon Franklin) of The Emergence of Rus, 750-1200 (1996), author of Nespokoyni s'sedi: b'lgaro-vizantiyska konfrontatsiya, obmen i s'zhitelstvo prez srednite vekove [Uneasy neighbours: Bulgaro-Byzantine confrontation, exchange and co-existence in the Middle Ages] (2007) and editor of The Expansion of Orthodox Europe: Byzantium, the Balkans and Russia (2007). S...