Alexander Vasiliev (historian)
Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev (
Byzantine history and culture in the mid-20th century. His History of the Byzantine Empire (vol. 1–2, 1928) remains one of a few comprehensive accounts of the entire Byzantine history, on the par with those authored by Edward Gibbon and Fyodor Uspensky
.
Biography
Vasiliev was born in
Nicholas Marr in his trip to Saint Catherine's Monastery in Sinai
.
During his stay at the
Russian Archaeology Institute, established by Fyodor Uspensky in Constantinople. In 1912, he moved to the St Petersburg University as a professor. He was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences
in 1919.
In 1925, during his visit to
Association Internationale des Études Byzantines
.
Bibliography
- Slavs in Greece (1898)
- The Latin Sway in the Levant (1923)
- History of the Byzantine Empire: Vol. 1: Constantine to the Crusades (1925 Russian; 1929 & many more English)
- History of the Byzantine Empire: Vol. 2: From the Crusades to the Fall of the Empire (1935 & many more)
- Byzantium and the Arabs, Vol. 1: Political relations between Byzantines and Arabs during the Amorian Dynasty (1900 Russian, 1935 and 1950 French, as Byzance et les Arabes, Tome I: La Dynastie d'Amorium (820–867))
- Byzantium and the Arabs, Vol. 2: Political relations between Byzantines and Arabs during the Macedonian Dynasty (1900 Russian, 1935 and 1950/1968 French, as Byzance et les Arabes, Tome II: La dynastie macédonienne (867–959), in two parts)
- The Goths in the Crimea (1936)
- "The Opening Stages of the Anglo-Saxon Immigration to Byzantium in the Eleventh Century" in Seminarium Kondakovianum (1937)
- The Russian Attack on Constantinople in 860 (1946)
- The 'Life' of St. Peter of Argos and its Historical Significance (1947)
- The monument of Porphyrius in the Hippodrome at Constantinople (1948, 1967)
- Imperial Porphyry Sarcophagi in Constantinople (1949)
- "The Historical Significance Of the Mosaic of Saint Demetrius at Sassoferrato", Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 5 (1950) p. 29-39
- Justin, the First: An Introduction to the Epoch of Justinian the Great (1950)
- The Second Russian Attack on Constantinople (1951, 1967)
- Hugh Capet Of France And Byzantium (1951)
- The Iconoclastic Edict of the Caliph Yazid II, A. D. 721 (1956, 1967)
- A Survey of Works on Byzantine History
- The Life of St. Theodore of Edessa
- Medieval Ideas of the End of the World: West and East
- Prester John and Russia (1996, ed. W. F. Ryan)
References
Citations
- ^ Der Nersessian, Sirarpie (1956). "Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev, 1867-1953". Dumbarton Oaks Papers (9/10): 10–11 – via Internet Archive.
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