Dr Mary Cunningham is Honorary Associate Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Nottingham. She has published books and articles on the Virgin Mary in Byzantium, homiletics, and hymnography. Dr Cunningham’s latest monograph is The Virgin Mary in Byzantium, c. 400-1000. Hymns, Homilies, and Hagiography (Cambridge University Press, 2021). She is currently working on a translation and commentary of two ninth-century Lives, one of which concerns the Virgin Mary.