Daniela Marcu Istrate, Ph.D. (2000), Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, is senior researcher at the Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology, Bucharest. She has long experience and many publications in church archaeology, being noted especially for exceptional finds related to medieval Transylvania and Hungary.Dan Ioan Mureșan, Ph.D. (2005), École des Hautes l'Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, is associate professor of Medieval History at the University of Rouen. He is a specialist in the history of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, and on the history of political ideology of Eastern and Western Europe.Gabriel Tiberiu Rustoiu, Ph.D. (2008), Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, is general director of the Alba Iulia National Museum of the Union. He has authored or co-authored over 90 archaeological reports, studies and books of history, archaeology and other related topics. His research interests concern prehistory, the migration period and the early medieval period.
