Warren Treadgold

Warren T. Treadgold (born April 30, 1949 in Oxford ) is an American Byzantine scholar .

Life

Treadgold graduated from Harvard University and received his PhD in 1977. Between 1977 and 1997 he taught at the University of California , Stanford University , Florida International University and the Free University of Berlin, among others . He has been National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Byzantine Studies at Saint Louis University since 1997 .

Treadgold deals with a broad spectrum of Byzantine history: political history, historiography as well as social, economic and cultural history. In addition to numerous articles, he has also written several monographs, such as A History of the Byzantine State and Society in 1997, a comprehensive account of Byzantine history with a focus on political history. Treadgold is currently writing a three-volume account of Byzantine historiography from late antiquity to the fall of Byzantium in the 15th century, of which two volumes are already available ( The Early Byzantine Historians and The Middle Byzantine Historians ).

Treadgold not infrequently takes views that deviate from the communis opinio . His manual presentation from 1997 was in parts sharply criticized. Likewise, in the context of his presentation of Byzantine historiography, he was accused of not always having taken into account current research or of creating hardly tenable hypotheses (as in the case of John Malalas and John of Antioch , of which he assumes that they only have what is lost today Work of Eustathius plagiarized by Epiphaneia ). In Anglo-American research, however, his portrayal of Byzantine historians was received more positively; there, the presentation of the manual has also found greater popularity.

Fonts

(only monographs)

• The Middle Byzantine Historians , Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2013.
• The Early Byzantine Historians , Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2007.
• A Concise History of Byzantium , Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2001.
• A History of the Byzantine State and Society , Stanford University Press, Stanford 1997.
• Byzantium and Its Army, 284-1081 , Stanford University Press, Stanford 1995.
• The Byzantine Revival, 780-842 , Stanford University Press, Stanford 1988.
• The Byzantine State Finances in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries , East European Monographs, New York 1982.
• The Nature of the Bibliotheca of Photius , Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC 1980.

Web links

• Treadgold, Warren T.  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
• Homepage at the University of St. Louis
• curriculum vitae

Remarks

1. ↑ In detail the review by Wolfram Brandes in: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 95 (2002), pp. 716–725. See also Ralph-Johannes Lilie : Introduction to Byzantine History. Stuttgart 2007, p. 285: "Treadgold, History has generally been received with skepticism because of the author's very personal views of what Byzantine history should look like."
2. ↑ See the review by Dariusz Brodka on: Treadgold, Warren: The early Byzantine historians , in: H-Soz-Kult , August 20, 2007.
3. ↑ See the discussions in Speculum 86/3 (2011), pp. 813f. and Speculum 90/1 (2013), pp. 302f .; limited Brian Croke, in: English Historical Review 125 (2010), pp. 133-135.
4. ↑ See, inter alia, the review in Speculum 75/2 (2000), pp. 515-520; largely positive (with criticism of late antique history) the discussion in The English Historical Review 114 (1999), pp. 130f. However, the discussion in: Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 315 (1999), pp. 90f.