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Studi e testi tardoantichi, vol. 25
- Pages: approx. 360 p.
- Size:156 x 234 mm
- Illustrations:9 b/w
- Language(s):English
- Publication Year:2024
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- ISBN: 978-2-503-61298-0
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The fascinating story of one of the major scholars
of late antiquity and Byzantium
BIO
Averil Cameron is a leading historian of late antiquity and Byzantium whose career includes King’s College London and Keble College Oxford. Her publications include Procopius and the Sixth Century (1985), Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire (1991) and Byzantine Matters (2014), and she has given invited lectures at Dumbarton Oaks, the University of California Berkeley, Princeton, the Collège de France, the Central University Budapest and elsewhere. She has received many academic honours and is a Dame Commander of the British Empire.
Summary
The transitions of the title are those in the life and intellectual development of one of the leading historians of late antiquity and Byzantium. Averil Cameron recounts her working-class origins in North Staffordshire and how she came to read Classics at Oxford and start her research at Glasgow University before moving to London and teaching at King’s College London. Later she was the head of Keble College Oxford at a time of change in the University and its colleges. She played a leading role in projects and organisations even as the flow of books and articles continued, in an array of publications that have been fundamental in shaping the disciplines of late antiquity and Byzantine studies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Part 1: Beginnings
1. Leek
2. Somerville
3. Greats at Oxford
4. More Oxford
Part 2: The Academic
5. Glasgow
6. King’s College London
7. Columbia University, New York
8. Life in the 1970s
9. From the Roman Empire to Late Antiquity
10. Princeton, 1978-79
11. King’s College London, 1970s-80s
12. Berkeley, Patristics and Paris
13. Byzantium and the Centre for Hellenic Studies
14. Writing and Academic Visits
15. From King’s College to Oxford
Part 3: Oxford and Keble College
16. A New Kind of Life: The Move to Keble
17. Keble College and its Chapel
18. The Move to Keble II
19. Change at Oxford
20. Heads of House
21. Fundraising
22. Keble Treasures
23. Oxford Roles
Part 4: Wider Horizons
24. Outside Oxford
25. Middle Eastern Travel
Part 5: Reflections
26. The Book Not Written
27. Pandemic Experience
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index of Names
