Leonela Fundi¿'s research focuses on Late Antique and Byzantine archaeology, art, history, and theology. She holds a doctorate in Byzantine art and history from the University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Since 2013, she has been working as a researcher and lecturer at the School of Theology and Philosophy of the Australian Catholic University. During the academic year 2017-2018, Fundi¿ was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Ancient History of Macquarie University, working on the Australian Research Council Discovery Project Memories of Utopia: Destroying the Past to Create the Future.

Introduction / Chapter 1. Artistic Production and Patronage in Epirus during the Thirteenth and the Beginning of the Fourteenth Centuries / Chapter 2. Art, the Memory of Constantinople, and the Formation of the Epirote Political Identity After 1204 / Chapter 3. Catastrophe and the Revival of Epirus: Art and Political Ideology after the Battle at Klokotnitsa in 1230 / Chapter 4. Epirus between the Palaiologoi and the Angevins during the Reign of Nikephoros Komnenos Doukas (1267/8-1297) / Chapter 5. Art and Patronage in the Principality of Epirus after 1296 / Conclusion / Catalogue of Iconographic Programmes in Epirote Churches