Angeliki Laiou
Early life and education
Laiou was born in
Academic career
In 1962, she went to lecture at the
With her Laiou pioneered the study of Byzantine and wider medieval society, and especially the role of women. Her article on The role of women in Byzantine society, published in the Jahrbuch der österreichischen Byzantinistik in 1981, "opened a new field for scholars of Byzantium". Her works on Peasant Society in the Late Byzantine Empire (1977) and Mariage, Amour et Parenté à Byzance Aux XIe-XIIIe Siècles (1992) were among the first studies in their field. During her last years, she presided over the compilation of the three-volume Economic History of Byzantium (2002), a definitive work in this until then rather neglected field, followed up a few years later by The Byzantine Economy (2007), her last book.[2][3][5]
In her native Greece, she was honoured by being inducted into the Academy of Athens in 1998, only the second woman after the writer Galateia Saranti, and by being decorated with the Commander class of the Order of Honour. Laiou was also a corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, a member of the Medieval Academy of America and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an honorary professor at Nankai University.[2][5]
Political career
In the
Personal life
She was married to
Diagnosed with thyroid cancer in September 2008, she died in Boston on 11 December 2008.
Major works
- Laiou, Angeliki E. (1972). Constantinople and the Latins: The Foreign Policy of Andronicus II, 1282–1328. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674-16535-7.
- Laiou, Angeliki E. (1977). Peasant society in the late Byzantine Empire: a social and demographic study. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-05252-6.
- Laiou, Angeliki E.; Maguire, Henry, eds. (1992). Byzantium, a world civilization. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. ISBN 978-0-88402-200-8.
- Laiou, Angeliki E. (1992). Mariage, amour et parenté à Byzance aux XIe–XIIIe siècles (in French). Paris: De Boccard. ISBN 978-2-7018-0074-5.
- Laiou, Angeliki E., ed. (1993). Consent and coercion to sex and marriage in ancient and medieval societies. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. ISBN 978-0-88402-213-8.
- Laiou, Angeliki E.; Simon, Dieter (1994). Law and society in Byzantium, 9th–12th centuries. Dumbarton Oaks. ISBN 978-0-88402-222-0.
- ISBN 0-88402-247-1.
- May, Ernest R.; Laiou, Angeliki E. (1998). The Dumbarton Oaks conversations and the United Nations, 1944-1994. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library. ISBN 978-0-88402-255-8.
- Laiou, Angeliki E.; Mottahedeh, Roy Parviz, eds. (2001). The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. ISBN 0-88402-277-3. Archived from the originalon 2010-11-23. Retrieved 2010-11-12.
- Laiou, Angeliki E., ed. (2002). The Economic History of Byzantium from the Seventh through the Fifteenth Century. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. ISBN 0-88402-288-9. Archived from the originalon 2012-02-18. Retrieved 2010-11-12.
- Laiou, Angeliki E., ed. (2005). Urbs capta: the Fourth Crusade and its consequences. Lethielleux. ISBN 978-2-283-60464-9.
- Laiou, Angeliki E.; Morrison, Cécile (2007). The Byzantine Economy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-84978-4.
References
- ^ "Λαΐου Αγγελική (1941-2008) - Βοιωτικός Κόσμος". viotikoskosmos.wikidot.com. Retrieved 2024-02-13.
- ^ a b c d e f "Professor Angeliki Laiou: expert on women in the Byzantine empire". The Times. 17 December 2008. Retrieved 12 November 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f Cécile Morrisson (26 March 2009). "Angeliki Laiou: Influential and highly regarded scholar of Byzantium". The Independent. Retrieved 12 November 2010.
- ^ a b c d ΑΓΓΕΛΙΚΗ ΛΑΪΟΥ (1941-2008): Μια σπουδαία γυναίκα, μια πραγματική «δασκάλα». Eleftherotypia (in Greek). 15 December 2008. Archived from the original on 9 August 2010. Retrieved 12 November 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f "Professor Angeliki Laiou dies of cancer". Harvard History Department News. 15 December 2008. Retrieved 12 November 2010.