Lars Hoffmann initially studied Protestant theology, and later on Byzantium, Ancient History and Classical Philology at the Universities of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Münster and Vienna, where he earned an M.A. (in Vienna) and PhD (in Mainz). From 1994 to 2010 he was a researcher at the University of Mainz (chair of Byzantine studies); since 2010 he has been a researcher at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, within the project ‘Byzantine Legal Sources’ at the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History, in Frankfurt/Main.
This volume deals with the evidence from manuscripts and handwritten documents with multilingual and multigraphic structures in Arabic, Hebrew, Latin and Greek, conceived and designed to display texts in different languages or scripts, as well as addressing the historical context of these testimonia (their production, use and circulation) and focusing on problems inherent to multicultural societies.