Michael Angold
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Michael Angold is Professor Emeritus of Byzantine History and Honorary Fellow in the University of Edinburgh
.
(BA
, D.Phil.
). He has worked at the University of Edinburgh
from 1970, serving as Professor of Byzantine History from 1996 until 2005, when he was appointed Professor Emeritus.
He has worked in the fields of medieval and Renaissance history and is especially known for his contribution to Byzantine Studies
. He has been particularly dedicated to the study of the Comnenian period
and of the late Byzantine Church.
He has been a member of the British National Committee of the Association Internationale pour les Études Byzantines and of the Byzantine Studies panel of the Research Assessment Exercise
.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
.
To mark his retirement the University of Edinburgh
held a conference, Ethnonemesis: the creation and disappearance of ethnic identities in the medieval East and West (3–5 June 2005). The keynote speaker was Dr Susan Reynolds, Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
, and other speakers included nineteen academics from the Universities of Cardiff
, Durham, Edinburgh
, London
, St Andrews
, and Wisconsin–Madison
, The Queen's University of Belfast, King's College London
, and the Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Institute for Medieval Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences), which co-sponsored the conference with the Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies Programme, University of Edinburgh
.
University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a public research university located in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city, with many of the buildings in the historic Old Town belonging to the university...
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Biography
Michael Angold was educated at the University of OxfordUniversity of Oxford
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(BA
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
, D.Phil.
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as Ph.D., PhD, D.Phil., or DPhil , in English-speaking countries, is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities...
). He has worked at the University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a public research university located in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city, with many of the buildings in the historic Old Town belonging to the university...
from 1970, serving as Professor of Byzantine History from 1996 until 2005, when he was appointed Professor Emeritus.
He has worked in the fields of medieval and Renaissance history and is especially known for his contribution to Byzantine Studies
Byzantine studies
Byzantine studies is an interdisciplinary branch of the humanities that addresses the history, culture, costumes, religion, art, such as literature and music, science, economy, and politics of the Byzantine Empire. The discipline's founder in Germany is considered to be the philologist Hieronymus...
. He has been particularly dedicated to the study of the Comnenian period
Komnenos
Komnenós or Comnenus was the name of a ruling family of the Eastern Roman Empire , who halted the political decline of the Empire from c.1081 to c.1185.-Origins:...
and of the late Byzantine Church.
He has been a member of the British National Committee of the Association Internationale pour les Études Byzantines and of the Byzantine Studies panel of the Research Assessment Exercise
Research Assessment Exercise
The Research Assessment Exercise is an exercise undertaken approximately every 5 years on behalf of the four UK higher education funding councils to evaluate the quality of research undertaken by British higher education institutions...
.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Royal Historical Society
The Royal Historical Society was founded in 1868. The premier society in the United Kingdom which promotes and defends the scholarly study of the past, it is based at University College London...
.
To mark his retirement the University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a public research university located in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city, with many of the buildings in the historic Old Town belonging to the university...
held a conference, Ethnonemesis: the creation and disappearance of ethnic identities in the medieval East and West (3–5 June 2005). The keynote speaker was Dr Susan Reynolds, Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Lady Margaret Hall is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located at the end of Norham Gardens in north Oxford. As of 2006 the college had an estimated financial endowment of £34m....
, and other speakers included nineteen academics from the Universities of Cardiff
Cardiff University
Cardiff University is a leading research university located in the Cathays Park area of Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. It received its Royal charter in 1883 and is a member of the Russell Group of Universities. The university is consistently recognised as providing high quality research-based...
, Durham, Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a public research university located in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city, with many of the buildings in the historic Old Town belonging to the university...
, London
University of London
-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
, St Andrews
University of St Andrews
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, and Wisconsin–Madison
University of Wisconsin–Madison
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866...
, The Queen's University of Belfast, King's College London
King's College London
King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...
, and the Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Institute for Medieval Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences), which co-sponsored the conference with the Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies Programme, University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a public research university located in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city, with many of the buildings in the historic Old Town belonging to the university...
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Books as author
- A Byzantine Government in Exile: Government and Society under the Laskarids of Nicaea, 1204-1261 (London: Oxford University Press, 1975)
- The Byzantine Empire, 1025-1204: a Political History (London: Longman, 1984; 2nd edn, New York: Longman, 1997)
- Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni, 1081-1261 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
- Byzantium: the Bridge from Antiquity to the Middle Ages (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001; London: Phoenix, 2002)
- The Fourth Crusade: Event and Context (Harlow: Longman, 2003)
Articles as author
- 'Procopius' portrait of Theodora', in C.N. Constantinides, N.M. Panagiotakes, E. Jeffreys, and A.D. Angelou, eds., Studies in Honour of Robert Browning (Venice: Istituto ellenico di studi bizantini e postbizantini di Venezia, 1996), pp. 21–34
Thesis
- The Administration of the Nicaean Empire (1204-1261) (D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford, 1967)
Books as editor
- The Byzantine aristocracy, IX to XIII centuries (BAR International Series 221, Oxford: BAR, 1984)
- Eastern Christianity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Bibliographer
Michael Angold was formerly responsible for producing a bibliography of publications in English for the Byzantinische Zeitschrift.Sources and Further Information
- Michael Angold, Byzantium: the Bridge from Antiquity to the Middle Ages (London: Phoenix, 2002), p. i
- University of Edinburgh, Senatus, Special Minute (7 December 2005)