Michael Angold

Michael Angold (born 1940) is Professor Emeritus of Byzantine History and Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

Michael J. Angold

FRHistS
Born1940
Academic background
EducationCorpus Christi College, Oxford
ThesisThe Administration of the Nicaean Empire (1204–1261) (1967)
Doctoral advisorDimitri Obolensky[1]
Other advisorsDonald Nicol[1]
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh
Notable worksThe Byzantine Empire, 1025–1204: A Political History

Biography

Angold was educated at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, where he took his BA (1961) and DPhil (1967) degrees. He has worked at the University of Edinburgh since 1970,[2] serving as professor of Byzantine history from 1996 until 2005, when he was appointed professor emeritus.[3]

The University of Edinburgh marked his retirement by holding the conference on Ethnonemesis: the creation and disappearance of ethnic identities in the medieval East and West (3–5 June 2005), with Susan Reynolds, Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, as keynote speaker.[4]

Angold has published extensively on the social and institutional history of the Byzantine Empire between 1025 and 1261. At the University of Edinburgh he has taught medieval and renaissance history, and acted as the Director of Studies among his many administrative duties. He served as 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 was also the national correspondent responsible for the British bibliographical contributions to the Byzantinische Zeitschrift.[3]

He has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Publications

Books authored

Books edited
  • The Byzantine Aristocracy, IX to XIII Centuries (BAR International Series 221, Oxford: BAR, 1984)
  • Eastern Christianity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)

Selected articles
  • "Byzantine 'Nationalism' and the Nicaean Empire", Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 1 (1975), pp. 49–70
  • "The Shaping of the Medieval Byzantine 'City'", Byzantinische Forschungen 10 (1985), pp. 1–37
  • "The Wedding of Digenes Akrites: Love and Marriage in Byzantium in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries", in Η καθημερινή ζωή στο Βυζάντιο (Τομές καί συνέχειες στην ελληνιστική και ρωμαϊκή παράδοση): Πρακτικά του Α' Διεθνούς Συμποσίου (Αθήνα, 15–17 σεπτεμβρίου 1988), ed. C. Angelidi (Athens: Kentro Vyzantinon Ereunon, 1989), pp. 201–15 ISBN 960-7094-37-9
  • "Procopius' portrait of Theodora", in Studies in Honour of Robert Browning, ed. C.N. Constantinides, N.M. Panagiotakes, E. Jeffreys, and A.D. Angelou (Venice: Istituto ellenico di studi bizantini e postbizantini di Venezia, 1996), pp. 21–34
  • "The Road to 1204: The Byzantine Background to the Fourth Crusade", Journal of Medieval History 25.3 (1999), pp. 257–78
  • "The City Nicaea ca. 1000–1400", in İznik throughout History, ed. Işıl Akbaygil, Halil İnalcık and Oktay Aslanapa (İstanbul: Türkiye İş Bankası, 2003), pp. 27–55 ISBN 975-458-431-1
  • "Michael VIII Palaiologos and the Aegean", in Liquid and Multiple: Individuals and Identities in the Thirteenth-Century Aegean, ed. G. Saint-Guillain and D. Stathakopoulos (Paris: Amis du Centre d'histoire et civilisation de Byzance, 2012), pp. 27–44
  • "The Accession of John III Doukas Vatatzes", Byzantinoslavica 80 (2022), pp. 120–45

Notes
  1. Angold 1975, p. viii.
  2. Collins 2019, p. 207.
  3. Special Minute: Professor Michael J Angold BA, DPhil, FR Hist S (PDF), Senate of the University of Edinburgh, 7 December 2005
  4. Ethnonemesis: The creation and disappearance of ethnic identities in the medieval East and West, University of Edinburgh

References
  • Angold, Michael (1975), A Byzantine Government in Exile: Government and Society under the Laskarids of Nicaea, 1204–1261, London: Oxford University Press
  • Collins, Roger (2019), "Angus MacKay" (PDF), Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, 18: 197–216
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