Mike Carr (PhD 2011) is lecturer in Late Medieval History at the University of Edinburgh. He was previously a research fellow at the British School at Rome and Alan Pearsall Fellow of Naval and Maritime History at the Institute of Historical Research, London. He is the author of a number of articles on the cross-cultural history of the Aegean and is the co-editor of the volume Contact and Conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean, 1204-1453 (Ashgate, 2014).