Romilly Jenkins
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Romilly James Heald Jenkins
)Romilly James Heald Jenkins (1907 – 30 September 1969) was a British scholar in Byzantine and Modern Greek studies. He occupied the prestigious seat of Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King's College London, in 1946–1960.
Life
Jenkins was born in
British Foreign Service.[1] In 1946 he was appointed Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King’s College London, as well as Honorary Lecturer in Classical Archaeology. Since 1960 until his death he was Professor of Byzantine History and Literature at the Dumbarton Oaks institute.[1][2]
Writings
- Dedalica. A study of Dorian plastic art in the seventh century B.C. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1936.
- Dionysius Solomos, the First Major Modern Greek Poet. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1940. Reprint: Denise Harvey & Company, Athens, 1981.
- The Byzantine Empire on the Eve of the Crusades. Published for the Historical Association by Philip, [London], 1953.
- Richard MacGillivray Dawkins, 1871–1955, in: Proceedings of the British Academy 41 (1955) pp. 373–88.
- The Dilessi Murders: Greek Brigands and English Hostages. Longmans, London, 1961. Reprint: Prion, London, 1998, ISBN 1-85375-280-0.
- The Hellenistic origins of Byzantine literature. Washington DC, 1963.
- Byzantium: The Imperial Centuries AD 610–1071. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1966. Reprint: Medieval Academy of America 1987, ISBN 0-8020-6667-4
- Constantine Porphyrogenitus: De Administrando Imperio. Ed. ISBN 953-6491-90-7.
- Studies on Byzantine history of the 9th and 10th centuries. Variorum Reprints, London, 1970, ISBN 0-902089-07-2.
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