This conference falls under the dissemination activities of the Sacred Landscapes in Late Byzantium (SLLB) research project. The project, lead by Dr Mihail Mitrea, has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 752292. The conference also received financial support from the Ideas and Beliefs research strand in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Newcastle University, the Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) research group at Newcastle University, as well as the Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London.