Cyril Mango

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Cyril Alexander Mango (born April 14, 1928 in Istanbul , † February 8, 2021 ) was a British Byzantinist .

life and work

Cyril Mango was born in Istanbul in 1928 as one of three sons of a Greek-English-Russian family; his parents were Alexander A. and Adelaide (Damonov) Mango, one brother was the historian, journalist and Turkey specialist Andrew Mango (1926-2014). After his basic school education in Istanbul, where a.o. Ernest Mamboury was one of his teachers, he studied Classical Philology at the University of St Andrews (MA 1949). In 1953 he received his doctorate from the Sorbonne .

He began his scientific career in 1955 at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, DC , a research institute of Harvard University , first as an instructor, from 1955 as a lecturer, from 1958 as an associate professor and from 1961 as a professor of Byzantine Archeology . From 1963 to 1968 he moved to King's College London as Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature , but returned to Dumbarton Oaks in 1968 as Professor of Byzantine Archeology . From 1973 until his retirement in 1995 he taught as Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature at Oxford University .

Mango was one of the few scientists active in all areas of Byzantine studies: philology, history, epigraphy and archeology. He can be considered one of the most important Byzantinists of the 20th century. In 1976 he became a member of the British Academy , in 1992 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2002 he became a corresponding member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres .

Cyril Mango was married to the British archaeologist and historian Marlia Mundell Mango for the third time. He died in February 2021 at the age of 92.

Publications

See List of publications of Cyril Mango. In: ΑΕΤΟΣ. Studies in honor of Cyril Mango presented to him on April 14, 1998 (Stuttgart 1998) pp. XIII – XX.

Monographs

  • The Brazen House. A study of the vestibule of the imperial palace of Constantinople (= Arkaeologisk-kunsthistoriske Meddelelser af det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab 4, 4). Copenhagen 1959 (dissertation).
  • Materials for the study of the mosaics of St. Sophia at Istanbul (= Dumbarton Oaks Studies 8). Washington, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection 1962.
  • with Ekrem Akurgal , Richard Ettinghausen : Turkey and its art treasures. The Anatolia of the early kingdoms, Byzantium, the Islamic period. Geneva 1966.
  • The art of the Byzantine empire 312-1453. Sources and documents. Englewood Cliffs 1972; Reprinted Toronto 1986.
  • Architettura bizantina. Milan 1974.
    • German edition: Byzantine architecture. Stuttgart 1975.
    • English edition: Byzantine architecture. New York 1976.
    • French edition: Architecture byzantine. Paris 1981.
  • Byzantine literature as a distorting mirror. An inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on May 21, 1974. Oxford, Clarendon Press 1975.
  • Byzantium. The empire of new Rome. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980.
  • Byzantium and its image. History and culture of the Byzantine empire and its heritage. London, Variorum, 1984.
  • Le développement urbain de Constantinople, IVe – VIIe siècles. Paris 1985. Réimpression conforme à l'édition de 1985 augmentée d'addenda de l'auteur. (= Travaux et mémoires du Center de recherche d'histoire et civilization de Byzance . Monographies 2). Paris 1990
  • Studies on Constantinople. Aldershot, Variorum 1993 (collected small studies on Constantinople).
  • with Ahmed Ertuğ: Hagia Sophia. A vision for empires. Istanbul, Ertuğ & Kocabıyık 1997.
  • with Stéphane Yerasimos: Melchior Lorichs Panorama of Istanbul, 1559. Commentary text. Istanbul, Ertug & Kocabıyık 1999.
  • with Ahmed Ertuğ: Chora. The scroll of heaven. Istanbul, Ertuğ & Kocabıyık 2000.

Text editions

  • The homilies of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople (= Dumbarton Oaks Studies 3). Transl., Introd. & comm. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press 1958
  • Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople, Short history. Text, transl., And commentary (= Corpus fontium historiae Byzantinae , Series Washingtoniensis 13 = Dumbarton Oaks texts 10). Washington, DC, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection 1990
  • The chronicle of Theophanes Confessor: Byzantine and Near Eastern history, AD 284-813. Transl. with introd. and commentary by Cyril Mango and Roger Scott. Oxford, Clarendon Press 1997.
  • The correspondence of Ignatios the Deacon. Text, translation, and commentary (= Corpus fontium historiae Byzantinae , Series Washingtoniensis 39 = Dumbarton Oaks texts 11). Washington, DC, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection 1997

Editorships

  • (Ed.): The Oxford history of Byzantium. Oxford, Oxford University Press 2002. ISBN 978-0198140986

Supplements to the list of publications

  • La voix des monuments. In: Mélanges de l'École Française de Rome: Moyen âge 110 (1998), pp. 931-939.
  • Where at Constantinople was the monastery of Christos Pantepoptes? In: Deltion tes Christianikes Archaiologikes Hetaireias 20 (1998), pp. 87-88.
  • The origins of the Blachernae shrine at Constantinople. In: Radovi XIII. Međunarodnog kongresa za starokršćansku arheologiju. Acta XIII Congressus Internationalis Archaeologiae Christianae. Split - Poreč 25.9.-1.10.1994 (Split 1998), Vol. 2, pp. 61–76.
  • The triumphal way of Constantinople and the Golden Gate. In: Dumbarton Oaks Papers 54 (2000) 173-188 ( PDF ).
  • From Constantinople to Cologne: the three Magi. In: Polypleuros nus. Miscellanea for Peter Schreiner on his 60th birthday (Munich, Leipzig 2000), pp. 200–203.
  • Constantinople as Theotokoupolis. In: Mother of God. The representation of the Virgin in Byzantine art. Athens, Milan 2000, pp. 17-25.
  • The shoreline of Constantinople in the fourth century. In: Byzantine Constantinople. Monuments, topography and everyday life. Leiden 2001, pp. 17-28.
  • Ninth to eleventh-century Constantinople: the cultural context. In: Sharon EJ Gerstel (Ed.): A lost art rediscovered. Baltimore 2001, pp. 5-11.
  • Sir Steven Runciman, 7/7/1903–1/11/2000. In: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 94 (2001), pp. 911-912.
  • The mystère de la XIVe region of Constantinople. In: Travaux et Mémoires du Center de recherche d'Histoire et Civilization de Byzance 14 (2002), pp. 449-545.
  • A memorial to the emperor Maurice? In: Deltion tes Christianikes Archaiologikes Hetaireias 24 (2003), pp. 15-20.
  • Septime Sévère et Byzance. In: Comptes-rendus de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (2003), pp. 593-608.
  • A fake inscription of the empress Eudocia and Pulcheria's relic of Saint Stephen. In: Nea Rhome 1 (2004), pp. 23-34.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death report .
personal data
SURNAME Mango, Cyril
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mango, Cyril A .; Mango, Cyril Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Byzantinist
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 2021