Judith Mistress

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Judith Mistress

Judith Herrin (born October 16, 1942 ) is a leading British Byzantine scholar , historian and archaeologist.

life and work

Herrin studied history at the University of Cambridge ( Newnham College ), where she obtained a bachelor's degree, as well as in Athens, Paris and Munich, and received her doctorate in 1972 from the University of Birmingham . She was an archaeologist at the British School at Athens and worked on excavations at the Calendarhane Mosque in Istanbul . From 1991 she was Stanley J. Seeger Professor of Byzantine History at Princeton University . In 1995 she became Professor of Late Antiquity and Byzantine Studies at King's College London . There she temporarily headed the Center for Hellenic Studies. In 2008 she retired. In 2011 she was President of the International Congress of Byzantine Studies .

She published monographs on the Byzantine Empire in general, its system of rule in the provinces, rulers and common women in Byzantium and the history of Christianity in late antiquity with regard to the relationship between Byzantium and the West and the iconoclasm in Byzantium. Some of her books are standard works (such as her History of Byzantium, translated into many languages, and the 1987 book The Formation of Christendom ). In addition, she did archaeological fieldwork on Byzantine topics in Greece, Istanbul and Cyprus and is co-editor of the magazine Past & Present .

From 1995 to 2001 she was on the Council of the Warburg Institute , and from 1995 to 2002 she was Governor of the Camden School of Girls . She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London . In 2002 she received the Gold Cross of the Greek Order of Honor and in 2000 the Medal of the Collège de France . In 2016 she was awarded the AH Heineken Prize for History for “her pioneering work on medieval Mediterranean cultures and the elaboration of the central historical role of the Byzantine empire” (according to the laudation).

She is a member of the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles (BCRPM) founded by Eleni Cubitt and Robert Browning , which advocates the return of the Parthenon sculptures to Greece.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Formation of Christendom. Princeton University Press, Basil Blackwell, 1987, Paperback Princeton UP / Fontana 1989.
  • Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire. Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, London, 2007; Princeton University Press 2008.
    • German edition: Byzantium: The Amazing History of a Medieval Empire. Reclam 2013.
  • Unrivaled Influence: Women and Empire in Byzantium. Princeton University Press, 2013.
  • Margins and Metropolis: Authority across the Byzantine Empire. Princeton University Press, 2013.
  • Women in Purple. Rulers of Medieval Byzantium. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2001, Princeton University Press, 2002.
  • A Medieval Miscellany. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1999.
Editorships
  • Editor with Anthony Bryer: Iconoclasm. Center for Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, 1977.
  • Editor with Averil Cameron: Constantinople in the Early Eighth Century: The Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai. Introduction, Translation and Commentary, Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, Volume X, Leiden, 1984.
  • Editor with M. Mullett, C. Otten-Froux: Mosaic. Byzantine and Cypriot Studies in Honor of AHS Megaw. Supplementary Volume to the Annual of the British School at Athens, 2001.
  • Editor with Ch. Dendrinos, E. Harvalia-Crook, J. Harris: Porphyrogenita: Essays on the History and Literature of Byzantium and the Latin East in Honor of Julian Chrysostomides. Publications for the Center of Hellenic Studies, King's College London. Aldershot 2003.
  • Editor with Emma Stafford: Personification in the Greek World. Ashgate: Aldershot 2005.
  • Editor with Guillaume Saint-Guillain: Identities and Allegiances in the Eastern Mediterranean after 1204. Ashgate 2011.
  • Editor with Jinty Nelson: Ravenna: its role in earlier medieval change and exchange , London 2016.

literature

  • Pamela Armstrong (Ed.): Authority in Byzantium. Aldershot 2013 (Festschrift for Judith Herrin, with the contributions to a conference in her honor in January 2009 on the occasion of her retirement).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Heineken Prize Winner Judith Herrin on the website of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences
  2. ↑ Michael Grünbart, review by H-Soz Kult 2013
  3. ↑ Review of Norman Stone, The Guardian December 15, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Mistress, Judith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1942