Beatrice Daskas is a historian of Byzantine visual culture specializing in the period ca. 750–1200 CE, with particular emphasis on the complex interplay between word and image. She received her PhD from the University of Milan in 2013 . Since then, she has held research fellowships at Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, DC; 2011, 2012–2013, 2015, 2025), supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at LMU Munich (2015–2017), at Princeton University (2017), within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Horizon 2020 programme at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2017–2019), and at the Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (Istanbul, 2025). Her research has been published in leading international peer-reviewed journals, and she co-edited the special issue Iconographiae: Writing Images in the Medieval World (Word & Image 39.1, 2023). Her most recent publication is a critical edition, Italian translation, and commentary of Nicholas Mesarites’ Account of the Coup of John “the Fat”, published in the Byzantinisches Archiv series (De Gruyter). Beatrice holds the Italian Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale in LFIL-LET/07 (Byzantine Civilization).
