James Howard-Johnston
James Howard-Johnston | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 12, 1942 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Christ Church, Oxford |
| Thesis | Studies in the Organization of the Byzantine Army in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries (1971) |
| Doctoral advisor | Dimitri Obolensky |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
| Doctoral students | Mark Whittow, Peter Heather, Peter Frankopan |
| Notable works | The Last Great War of Antiquity |
James Douglas Howard-Johnston (born 12 March 1942) is an English historian of the
Early life
Born in Dublin, Howard-Johnston is the son of Rear-Admiral Clarence Howard-Johnston and his wife Lady Alexandra Henrietta Louisa Haig, a daughter of Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig. His mother married secondly the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper.[2][3][4][5]
He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford.
Career
Howard-Johnston was a junior research lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford, from 1966 to 1971 and also held a junior fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks in 1968–1969. Later, he was University Lecturer in Byzantine Studies and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, until his retirement in 2009. He was briefly interim President of the same college in the mid-2000s.
He was a member of Oxford City Council (1971–76) and Oxfordshire County Council (1973–77, 1981–87).[6][7] At the time of his re-election in 1973 as an Oxford councillor in the Oxford South ward, where he garnered 43.7% of the vote, he was a member of the Labour Party.[8]
Personal life
Howard-Johnston is married to the novelist Angela Huth and has a step-daughter, Candida Crewe, daughter of Quentin Crewe, and a daughter, Eugenie Teasley.[4][5]
Books
- (with Nigel Ryan) The Scholar & the Gypsy: Two Journeys to Turkey, Past and Present (1992)
- (ed. with Paul Hayward) The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Essays on the contribution of Peter Brown (1999)
- Witnesses to a World Crisis: Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century (Oxford 2010)
- Historical Writing in Byzantium (Heidelberg 2014)
- (ed.) Social change in town and country in eleventh-century Byzantium (Oxford 2020)
- The Last Great War of Antiquity (Oxford 2021)
Notes
- ^ "Instagram".
- ^ Charles Mosley, ed, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage 107th edition. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, 562
- ^ "Lady Alexandra Haig". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
- ^ a b "OUP publication 'Witnesses to a World Crisis'".
- ^ a b Lara Kilner, 'After seven years of Dementia, Mama is Back', The Daily Telegraph, 26 November 2023 (subscription required); archived at archive.ph, accessed 9 March 2025
- doi:10.1344/EBizantinos2014.2.6. Archived from the originalon 16 July 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
- ^ "Witnesses to a World Crisis - Paperback - James Howard-Johnston - Oxford University Press".
- ^ Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael, Oxford City Council Election Results 1973–2012 (PDF), University of Plymouth, p. [3], archived (PDF) from the original on 12 May 2021, retrieved 12 March 2025
