Judith Herrin is Emeritus Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies

Byzantine studies

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 at King's College London

King's College London

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. She studied history at the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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 and did her PhD

PHD

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 at the University of Birmingham

University of Birmingham

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. She trained in Paris

Paris

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 and Munich

Munich

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, worked as an archaeologist with the British School at Athens and on the site of Kalenderhane Mosque

Kalenderhane Mosque

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 in Istanbul

Istanbul

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 as a fellow of Dumbarton Oaks. She was Stanley J. Seeger Professor in Byzantine History, Princeton University

Princeton University

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 (1991-95) before moving to King's.

Honours

• Golden Cross of the Order of Honour for services to Hellenism by the President of the Hellenic Republic of Greece (2002)
• Medal from the College de France (2000)
• Vice-Chairman of the Editorial Board, Past & Present
• Member of the Governing Board of the Warburg Institute
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  , University of London
  University of London
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   (1995-2001)
• University of London appointed Governor of Camden School for Girls
  Camden School for Girls
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   (1995-2002)
• Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
• Member, British Academy Committee for the Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
• Member, British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles
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Selected bibliography

• Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire (Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, London, 2007; Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2008) ISBN 978-0-691-13151-1, Polish, Greek, Turkish, Italian, Spanish, Korean, Japanese translations (2009-11).

• Personification in the Greek World, eds Emma Stafford and Judith Herrin (Ashgate: Aldershot 2005) ISBN 978-0754650317.

• Porphyrogenita: Essays on the History and Literature of Byzantium and the Latin East in Honour of Julian Chrysostomides, eds J. Herrin, Ch. Dendrinos, E. Harvalia-Crook, J. Harris (Publications for the Centre of Hellenic Studies, King's College London. Aldershot 2003). ISBN 978-0754636960.

• Mosaic. Byzantine and Cypriot Studies in Honour of A.H.S. Megaw, eds. J. Herrin, M. Mullett, C. Otten-Froux (Supplementary Volume to the Annual of the British School at Athens, 2001) ISBN 0 904887 405.

• Women in Purple. Rulers of Medieval Byzantium (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2001, Princeton University Press, 2002) ISBN 978-1842125298 [on Irene (empress)
  Irene (empress)
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  , Euphrosyne (9th century)
  Euphrosyne (9th century)
  Euphrosyne , a daughter of Byzantine emperor Constantine VI, the last representative of the Isaurian dynasty, and Maria of Amnia.- Life :...
  
   and Theodora (9th century)
  Theodora (9th century)
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  ]. Spanish translation (2002), Greek translation (2003), Czech translation (2004), Polish translation (2006).

• A Medieval Miscellany (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1999) ISBN 978-0670893775, Dutch and Spanish translations (2000).

• The Formation of Christendom (Princeton University Press and Basil Blackwell, 1987). Revised, illustrated paperback edition (Princeton University Press and Fontana, London, 1989), reissued by Phoenix Press, London, 2001, ISBN 978-1842121795.

• Constantinople in the Early Eighth Century: The Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai, Introduction, Translation and Commentary, edited with Averil Cameron
  Averil Cameron
  Dame Averil Millicent Cameron, DBE, FBA is Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History in the University of Oxford, and was formerly the Warden of Keble College, Oxford between 1994 and 2010....
  
  . Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, vol. X (Leiden, 1984). ISBN 9004070109.

• Iconoclasm, edited with Anthony Bryer (Centre for Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, 1977). ISBN 0704402262.