Maria Evangelatou holds a first degree in Archaeology (specialization in Byzantine Art) from the University of Ioannina, Greece (1993), and a Diploma in History of Art from the University of East Anglia (1995). She studied Museology and conservation of works of art at the Universitá Internazionale dell'Arte in Florence (1995-1997). She holds M.A. (1998) and Ph.D. s (2002) degrees in Byzantine Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, with a dissertation on the illustration of the ninth-century Byzantine marginal psalters. From 2000 to 2003 she worked as curatorial assistant in the Manuscript Department of the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens, and during the academic year 2003-2004 she held a Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship. Her scholarly interests are Byzantine manuscript illumination (with particular attention to the relationship of word and image), and symbolic aspects of Byzantine iconography (with particular attention to the relationship between ecclesiastical texts and the visual arts). Maria Evangelatou has published on the ninth-century Byzantine marginal psalters and on Marian iconography.  [Last Updated 2005]