John F. Haldon

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John F. Haldon is a British Byzantinist .

Life

He worked at the Universities of Athens and Munich , at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt and at the University of Birmingham , where he was director of the Center for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies from 1995 and head of the School of from 2000 to 2004 Historical Studies. In 2005 he moved to Princeton University . From 2007 to 2013 he was a Senior Fellow at the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies. He is Shelby Cullom Davis '30 Professor Emeritus of European History and Professor of Byzantine History and Greek Studies. From 2014 to 2018 he was Director of the Mossavar Rahmani Center for Iran and Gulf Studies and from July 2009 to June 2018 Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of History.

Fonts (selection)

  • Recruitment and Conscription in the Byzantine Army C. 550-950. A study on the origins of the stratiotika ktemata . Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-7001-0314-X .
  • Byzantine Praetorians. An administrative, institutional and social survey of the Opsikion and Tagmata, c. 580-900 . Bonn 1984, ISBN 3-7749-2004-4 .
  • as editor: Perspectives in Byzantine history and culture. Dedicated to Joseph Gill . Amsterdam 1985, ISBN 90-256-0619-9 .
  • Byzantium in the seventh century. The transformation of a culture . Cambridge 1990, ISBN 0-521-26492-8 .

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