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Professor Andrew Jotischky is Professor of Medieval History in the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He holds an MPhil and PhD in History and previously taught for twenty years at Lancaster University, serving as Head of the History Department there. His research focuses on medieval religion and culture, particularly Christianity, encompassing religious lives, motivations, and institutions; travel and cultural interactions between Greek and western Europeans; crusading; hermits and monks; fasting and asceticism; and pilgrimage. Jotischky examines religious figures in their political, cultural, and spiritual landscapes, with specific interests in monks, hermits, female religious, Latin-Greek Christian relations, sainthood in the Middle Ages, Holy Land pilgrimage, shrine devotions, and the cultural history of food, feasting, and fasting.