Frederick Lauritzen studied classics at New College in Oxford and wrote his phd thesis at Columbia Univerity, New York. He is member of the Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose of Bologna since 2008 and member of the Academie Internationale des Sciences Religieuses since 2011. His research is centred on byzantine literature and culture. In Bologna he has focused on the history of synods of the Orthodox church in the Byzantine Empire.

F. Lauritzen, The depiction of Character in Psellos’ Chronographia, [Byzantios: studies in Byzantine history and civilization], Brepols, Turnhout, 2013

F. Lauritzen, Synod decrees of the Eleventh Century, in Byzantinische Zeitschrift 105.1 (2012) 101-116

Bartholomew I Ecumenical Patriarch, Encountering the Mystery: Understanding Orthodox Christianity Today, New York 2008H. 

Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Church, London 1997.

Hilarion Alfeev, St Symeon the New Theologian and Orthodox Tradition, Oxford 2000,