Foteini’s first monograph, Words and Artworks in Byzantium (Tolworth, 2021), is a pioneering discussion on twelfth-century Greek ekphrastic epigrams that blends Digital Humanities with traditional methods of historical research. The book reveals the top-down direction of the inscriptional habit in the middle-Byzantine era and argues that poetic inscriptions were social commodities able to nurture professional networks and amplify an individual’s cultural capital at the centre of the Byzantine administration, Constantinople.