Authors

Martin Seyer (“Mysterious Jewish Building in Roman Turkey”) has been the excavation director at Limyra on behalf of the Austrian Archaeological Institute since 2008. Specializing in the archaeology of Lycia/Turkey, he has participated in numerous excavations in Austria, Turkey and Jordan.

Peter Brown (“Monastic Views of Work”) is the Rollins Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. He began his career at Oxford and held positions at Royal Holloway College and the University of California, Berkeley before coming to Princeton in 1986. He knows more than 26 languages and has received more than 20 honorary doctorates. Among his many accolades, Brown was awarded the Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Humanity by the Library of Congress (2008) and the International Balzan Prize for the Humanities (2011).