Elizabeth Jeffreys

Elizabeth Mary Jeffreys (born July 22, 1941 ) is a British Byzantine and Neo-Graecist and retired Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature at Oxford University .

Life

After attending Blackheath High School for Girls , London , Jeffreys studied Classics at Girton College , Cambridge , and received his PhD with a dissertation on classical motifs in Greek and French romance novels of the Middle Ages at St Anne's College , Oxford . She then did research fellowships at the Warburg Institute at the University of London , at the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies at Harvard University and at the University of Ioannina . She then held various positions in research and teaching in the Department of Modern Greek at the University of Sydney and eventually received an Australian Senior Research Fellowship . In 1996 Jeffreys was appointed Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature . At the same time she was Professorial Fellow of Exeter College . She has been retired since 2006.

Jeffreys is a founding member of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies (AABS) and the Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand (MGSAANZ). She co-founded the academic book series Byzantina Australiensia and the journal Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand) and was editor of the Australian journal for the history of the Middle Ages, Parergon, for many years .

She is an Honorary Fellow of St Anne's College and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities .

Research priorities

Jeffreys' research focuses on the interface between the written and oral forms of Greek in the Byzantine millennium from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries, at which an unofficial form of censorship prevented the emerging vernacular from appearing in written form, albeit various exceptions succeeded. In this regard Jeffreys has the chronicle of the sixth century ( Johannes Malalas ), the courtly poetry and the epic of the twelfth century ( Digenis Akritis ) and romance novels of the 14th century (among others Ο Πόλεμος της Τροάδος , dt .: "The Trojan War") ) examined. Her current focus is on the transmission of early modern Greek literature between 1150 and 1700 in manuscripts and early prints.

Fonts

Monographs, editions, translations

(with John H. Pryor): The Age of the Dromon: the Byzantine navy ca 600–1204 . Brill, Leiden, 2006.
Digenis acritis. The Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998. Edition with translation and annotations
(with Manolis Papathomopoulos ): The War of Troy - Ο Πόλεμος της Τροάδος . MIET, Athens, 1996. - Editio princeps an extensive romantic novel in verse of the 14th century, in the Roman de Troie of Benoît de Sainte-Maure builds
(with Michael Jeffreys and Roger Scott): The Chronicle of John Malalas: A Translation . Melbourne, 1996 (Byzantina Australiensia 4), ISBN 0-9593626-2-2 . - Translation including all testimonies for the lost parts of the Chronicle
(with Michael Jeffreys): Popular Literature in Late Byzantium . London, 1983.

Editorships

(Eds., With John Haldon, Robin Cormack ): The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies . Oxford 2008.
(Ed.): Byzantine Style, Civilization and Religion: in honor of Sir Steven Runciman . Cambridge University Press, 2006.
(Ed., With Michael Jeffreys): Approaches to Texts , Sub-faculty of Modern Greek, University of Oxford, 2005 (Proceedings of the conference NeoGraeca V, Oxford 2000).
(Ed.): Rhetoric in Byzantium , Aldershot, Ashgate, 2003 ( Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies , 11).
(Ed., With Robin Cormack): Through the Looking Glass: Byzantium through British Eyes , Aldershot, Ashgate, 2000 (Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, 7).

items

The Labors of the Twelve Months in twelfth-century Byzantium , in: E. Staffor, J. Herrin (Ed.), Personifications in Greek Culture , Ashgate, 2005, 309-324.
Elizabeth and Michael Jeffreys : The Oral Background of Byzantine Popular Poetry . In: Oral Tradition 1.3, 1986, 504-47. ( PDF )

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personal data
SURNAME	Jeffreys, Elizabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jeffreys, Elizabeth Mary (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British Byzantine and Neo-Graecist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 22, 1941