During the academic year 2015-16, thanks to funding from a Leverhulme fellowship, Monica White started research on a major new monograph about relations between Byzantium and the East Slavs over the entire medieval period (860-1453). Other current and recent projects include a co-edited volume, Byzantium and the Viking World, to which she contributed an article about relics in early medieval Russia (Rus); an article about mobility and the problem of 'nomadism' in medieval Eurasia (with Naomi Standen); and a fictional but historically-informed story about a pilgrim who travels from Rus to Constantinople in 1277. The latter is a contribution to a volume of historical 'portraits' from medieval eastern Europe. Monica’s previous research has mainly concerned the cult of saints in the Orthodox Church: Military Saints in Byzantium and Rus, 900-1200, published by Cambridge University Press in 2013, studies the patron saints of armies in the medieval Orthodox world. Related work includes articles about the inverted heart motif, a pattern found on enamels from Byzantium, Rus and elsewhere; the evolution of dragon-slaying miracles in Byzantine hagiography; the place of Ss Boris and Gleb within the world of Orthodox sainthood; and the veneration of Constantine the Great in early Rus.