Paul Magdalino
Paul Magdalino | |
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Born | [2] | 10 May 1948
Awards | Runciman Award (1993) |
Academic background | |
Education | Oriel College, Oxford |
Thesis | The History of Thessaly, 1266–1393 (1976) |
Doctoral advisor | Donald Nicol[1] |
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Main interests | |
Notable works | The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143–1180 |
Paul Magdalino
Biography
Magdalino was educated at the
He is a fellow of the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, the
He was a visiting professor of history at Harvard University in 1995–1996 and a Senior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks in 2001–2007.[2] In 2002 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy.[5]
Magdalino is a member of several editorial boards and research committees: 'The Medieval Mediterranean' at Brill monograph series; 'Oxford Studies in Byzantium' at Oxford University Press; Committee for the British Academy project on the Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire; Senior Fellows Committee at Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies; La Pomme d’Or Publishing; Byzantinische Zeitschrift journal.[6]
His research interests include Byzantine history: the society, culture and economy of the Byzantine world from 6th to 13th centuries; the city of Constantinople; prophecy, scientific thought, the formation of Byzantine religious Orthodoxy.[7]
Publications
Books as author
- (with Clive Foss) Rome and Byzantium (Oxford, 1976)
- Tradition and Transformation in Medieval Byzantium (Aldershot: Variorum, 1991) [reprints]
- The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143–1180 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp.xxvi+527, winner of the 1993 Runciman Award
- Constantinople médiévale. Études sur l'évolution des structures urbaines, Travaux et Mémoires, Monographies 9 (Paris, 1996) pp. 117; Serbian translation, Belgrade 2001
- The Byzantine Background to the First Crusade (Toronto: Canadian Institute of Balkan Studies, 1996) pp.38
- L’orthodoxie des astrologues. La science entre le dogme et la divination à Byzance (VIIe-XIVe siècle), Réalités byzantines 12 (Paris, 2006), pp. 194
- Studies on the History and Topography of Byzantine Constantinople (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007) [reprints]
- (with Robert S. Nelson) The Old Testament in Byzantium (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010)
Books as editor
- The Perception of the Past in Twelfth-Century Europe (London, 1992) pp.x+240
- New Constantines: the Rhythm of Imperial Renewal in Byzantine History, 4th-13th Centuries (Aldershot, 1994) pp.x+312
- (with David Ricks) Byzantium and the Modern Greek Identity (Aldershot, 1998) pp.x+187
- Byzantium in the Year 1000 (Leiden, 2003), pp. xx+284
- (with Maria Mavroudi) The Occult Sciences in Byzantium (Geneva, 2007) pp. 468
- (with Matteo Campagnolo, Marielle Martiniani-Reber and André-Louis Rey) Actes du colloque sur l'aniconisme a Byzance (Geneva, 2009)
- The Incineration of New Babylon: The Fire Poem of Konstantinos Stilbes (Geneva, 2015)
- (with Nina Ergin) Istanbul and Water (Leuven, 2015)
- (with Nevra Necipoğlu) Trade in Byzantium: Papers from the Third International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium (Istanbul, 2016)
- (with Sabine Ladstätter) Ephesos from Late Antiquity until the Late Middle Ages (Vienna, 2019)
- (with Andrei Timotin) Savoirs prédictifs et techniques divinatoires de l'Antiquité tardive à Byzance (Seyssel, 2019)
Notes
- ^ Magdalino 2020.
- ^ a b c "Magdalino, Prof. Paul". Who's Who 2023. A & C Black. 1 December 2022. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
- ^ "PAUL MAGDALINO - Publications - Books". www.pommedor.ch.
- ^ a b "PAUL MAGDALINO - CV". www.pommedor.ch.
- ^ "British Academy | Elections to the Fellowship - British Academy". Archived from the original on 24 March 2014. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 September 2013. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies".
References
- Magdalino, Paul (14 July 2020). "Paul Magdalino" (Interview). Interviewed by Anna Stavrakopoulou; Audrey Pettner. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks.