Photeine V. Perra is an associate professor of Medieval History at the Department of History, Archaeology and Cultural Resources Management, University of the Peloponnese, Kalamata. She studied History at the Ionian University, Corfu and completed her Ph.D. thesis at the Department of Mediterranean Studies, Aegean University, Rhodes. Her research interests are focused on Latin Rule in Greek lands (1204-1797), the Hospitallers’ presence in Greece, and the relations between Byzantium and Venice, as well as between Venice and the Ottoman Empire. She is a contributor to the Encyclopaedic Prosopographical Lexicon of Byzantine History and Civilization and a member of the editorial committee of the journal Byzantinos Domos. Dr. Perra is a member of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (SSCLE) and has published several articles and book presentations in various journals in Greece and abroad. 67