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News

Dr Peter Frankopan

Announcement of Stavros Niarchos Foundation Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research

14 Oct 2019
Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Centre

Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at Oxford University boosted by major gift from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation

8 May 2019
Dr Peter Frankopan

Professor Peter Frankopan has won the Calliope Prize for Practical Migration Research 2019

14 Nov 2019
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Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?

Dr Helen Gittos' new research argues that early medieval soldiers were recruited from Britain into the Byzantine army in 575AD and fought against the Sasanians in modern-day Syria.
10 Jan 2025

Publications

The Last Statues of Antiquity

Bryan Ward-Perkins, The Last Statues of Antiquity (Oxford University Press, 2016)
Caliphs and Merchants: Cities and Economies of Power in the Near East (700-950)

Fanny Bessard - Caliphs and Merchants: Cities and Economies of Power in the Near East (700-950) (OUP, 2020)
The Norman Conquest in English History

George Garnett - The Norman Conquest in English History Volume I: A Broken Chain? (OUP, 2021)
Reading in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond

Ida Toth & Teresa Shawcross (eds.) - Reading in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond (CUP, 2018)
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Ine Jacobs (ed.) - Cyprus in the Long Late Antiquity: history and archaeology between the sixth and eighth centuries (2022)

1 Dec 2022
Inscribing Texts in Byzantium: Continuities and Transformations

Marc Lauxtermann & Ida Toth (eds.) - Inscribing Texts in Byzantium: Continuities and Transformations (Routledge, 2020)
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

Peter Frankopan - The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Bloomsbury, 2015)
The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History

Peter Wilson - The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History (Penguin UK, 2016).

Academics

Dr Rowena Archer

Dr Rowena Archer

Fellow at Brasenose, Lecturer in Medieval History at Christ Church
Christ Church
Dr Fanny Bessard

Dr Fanny Bessard

Associate Professor in Medieval Eurasian History
Trinity College
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Dr Phil Booth

Associate Professor of Eastern Christianity
St Peter's College
Dr Margaret Coombe

Dr Margaret Coombe

Tutor in British Medieval History and Director of Study Skills
Lady Margaret Hall
Dr Peter Frankopan

Professor Peter Frankopan

Professor of Global History
Worcester College
Professor George Garnett

Professor George Garnett

Professor of Medieval History
St Hugh's College
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Dr Emily Davenport Guerry

Tutor in Medieval History
St Peter's College
Professor Helena Hamerow

Professor Helena Hamerow

Professor of Early Medieval Archaeology
St Cross College
Dr Ine Jacobs

Dr Ine Jacobs

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Associate Professor of Byzantine Archaeology and Visual Culture
University College
Dr Conor O'Brien

Dr Conor O'Brien

Associate Professor in the Early Medieval History of the British Isles and North Atlantic World
The Queen's College
Dr Amanda Power

Dr Amanda Power

Sullivan Clarendon Associate Professor in History
St Catherine's College
Professor Julia Smith

Professor Julia Smith

Chichele Professor of Medieval History
All Souls College
Dr Ida Toth

Dr Ida Toth

University Research Lecturer in Medieval Latin, Byzantine Greek and Byzantine Epigraphy
Wolfson College
Professor Christopher Tyerman

Professor Christopher J. Tyerman

Professor of the History of the Crusades
Hertford College

Associate Members

Dr Veronica West-Harding

Dr Veronica West-Harling

Associate member

Emeriti

Professor Bryan Ward-Perkins

Professor Bryan Ward-Perkins

Tutor in Late Antique and Medieval History
Trinity College

Graduate students

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Philip Atkins

DPhil Student
Trinity College
William Bunce

William Bunce

DPhil Student
Wadham College
Martina Carandino

Martina Carandino

DPhil Student
James Cogbill

James Cogbill

DPhil Student
Worcester College
Meredith Cutrer

Meredith Cutrer

DPhil Student
Worcester College
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Madeleine Duperouzel

DPhil Student
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Daniel Gallaher

DPhil Student
Balliol College
William Kinsella

William Kinsella

DPhil Student
St Cross College
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John-Francis Martin

DPhil Student
Oriel College
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Shian Haw (Raymond) Ngoh

DPhil Student
Keble College
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Lorenzo Saccon

DPhil Student
Wolfson College
Benjamin Sharkey

Benjamin Sharkey

DPhil Student
Alexander Sherborne

Alexander Sherborne

DPhil Student
Magdalen College
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Paul Ulishney

DPhil Candidate
Christ Church
Nathan Websdale

Nathan Websdale

DPhil Student
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Jonathan Thomas Wild

DPhil Student
Brasenose
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Helena Winterhager

DPhil Student
Lincoln College
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Kaiyue Zhang

DPhil Student

Outreach Tutors

Chloe Agar

Chloé Agar

Outreach Tutor
Faculty of History

Researchers

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Dr Moreed Arbabzadah

Hugh Price Fellow
Jesus College
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Dr Ana de Oliveira Dias

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Crafting Documents c.500-c.800
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Dr Mike Humphreys

Departmental Lecturer in Byzantine History
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Dr Carolyn La Rocco

Career Development Research Fellow in Early Medieval History
St John's College
Dr Salam Rassi

Dr Salam Rassi

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
Wolfson College
Dr Elina Screen

Dr Elina Screen

College Lecturer in Medieval History
University College/Trinity College
Dr Emily Winkler

Dr Emily A. Winkler

Lecturer in Medieval History
Hertford College & St Edmund Hall

Events

28 Jun
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Vernacular languages in the long ninth century

University of Kent

Lecture Seriess

16 Jan
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The Carlyle Lectures 2018 - Constitutions before Constitutionalism: Classical Greek Ideas of Office and Rule

Melissa Lane (Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, Princeton University)
Examination Schools
21 Jan
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The James Ford Lectures 2022 - Dogsbodies and Dogs’ Bodies: A Social and Cultural History of Roman Britain’s Dogs and People

Professor Robin Fleming (Professor of Early Medieval History, Boston College)
Online

Outreach Tutor Articles

'The church of Apa Kollouthos at his shrine in Antinoopolis, photograph from Peter Grossmann 2014, ‘Antinoopolis the area of St. Colluthos in the north necropolis’, page 284.'   

Christian Saints in Egypt: Texts and Contexts

Chloé Agar
4th Century Christ

Late Antique Opportunities? The Case of Marcella

Mary Hitchman

Research Projects

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Crafting Documents, c.500-c.800 CE
From Byzantine to Ottonian empires: Venice, Ravenna and Rome, imperial associations and the construction of city identity, c. 750-1000

From Byzantine to Ottonian Empires
Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Centre

Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research
Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity

Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity
The Cult of Saints

The Cult of Saints
The Last Statues of Antiquity

The Last Statues of Antiquity