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Warren Treadgold

Professor
NEH Professor of Byzantine Studies


Education

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1977.
A.B., Harvard University, 1970.

Scholarly Publications

Books

The Early Byzantine Historians (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
A Concise History of Byzantium (New York: St Martin's Press, 2001).

A History of the Byzantine State and Society (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997).

Byzantium and Its Army, 284-1081 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995).
The Byzantine Revival, 780-842 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988).

The Byzantine State Finances in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries (New York: East European Monographs, 1982).

The Nature of the Bibliotheca of Photius (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1980).

Journal Articles

"The Prophecies of the Patriarch Methodius," Revue des études byzantines 62 (2004): 229-37.

"The Historicity of Imperial Bride-Shows," Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 54 (2004): 39-52.

"Photius Before His Patriarchate," Journal of Ecclesiastical History 53 (2002): 1-17.

"Procopius and the Imperial Panels of San Vitale," Art Bulletin 79 (1997): 708-23. (Co-author).

"Numismatics and the Ripening of Byzantine Studies," Rivista di Bizantinistica 4 (1994).

"Taking Sources on Their Own Terms and on Ours: Peter Brown's Late Antiquity," Antiquité Tardive 2 (1994): 153-59.

"Imaginary Early Christianity," International History Review 15 (1993): 535-45.

"The Army in the Works of Constantine Porphyrogenitus," Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici, n.s. 29 (1992): 77-162.

"Byzantium in the Tenth Century," Rivista di Bizantinistica 2 (1992): 81-100.

"The Missing Year in the Revolt of Artavasdus," Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 42 (1992): 87-93.

"A Note on Byzantium's Year of the Four Emperors (641)," Byzantinische Zeitschrift 84 (1991): 431-33.

"Seven Byzantine Revolutions and the Chronology of Theophanes," Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 31 (1990): 203-27.

"The Break in Byzantium and the Gap in Byzantine Studies," Byzantinische Forschungen 14 (1990): 289-316.

"On the Value of Inexact Numbers," Byzantinoslavica 50 (1989): 57-61.

"Three Byzantine Provinces and th First Byzantine Contacts with the Rus'," Harvard Ukrainian Studies 12/13 (1988/89): 132-44.

"The Empress Irene's Preparation for the Seventh Ecumenical Council," The Patristic and Byzantine Review 7 (1988): 49-58.

"The Preface of the Bibliotheca of Photius Once More," Symbolae Osloenses 61 (1986): 133-38. (Co-author).

"An Indirectly Preserved Source for the Reign of Leo IV," Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 34 (1984): 69-76.

"The Bulgars' Treaty with the Byzantines in 816," Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Slavi 4 (1984): 213-20.

"The Military Lands and the Imperial Estates in the Middle Byzantine Empire," Harvard Ukrainian Studies 7 (1983): 619-31.

"Remarks on the Work of Al-Jarmî on Byzantium," Byzantinoslavica 44 (1983): 205-12.

"The Unpublished Saint's Life of the Empress Irene," Byzantinische Forschungen 8 (1982): 237-51.

"Notes on the Numbers and Organization of the Ninth-Century Byzantine Army," Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 21 (1980): 269-88.

"The Recently Completed Edition of the Bibliotheca of Photius," Byzantinoslavica 41 (1980): 50-61.

"The Revival of Byzantine Learning and the Revival of the Byzantine State," American Historical Review 84 (1979): 1245-66.

"The Chronological Accuracy of the Chronicle of Symeon the Logothete for the Years 813-845," Dumbarton Oaks Papers 33 (1979): 157-97.

"The Bride-Shows of the Byzantine Emperors," Byzantion 49 (1979): 395-413.

"Photius on the Transmission of Texts," Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 19 (1978): 171-75.

"The Preface of the Bibliotheca of Photius," Dumbarton Oaks Papers 31 (1977): 343-49.

"A Verse Translation of the Lâmîyah of Shanfarâ," Journal of Arabic Literature 6 (1975): 30-34.

"The Problem of the Marriage of the Emperor Theophilus," Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 16 (1975): 325-41.

Edited Volumes

Renaissances Before the Renaissance: Cultural Revivals of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1984).

Essays in Edited Volumes

"Byzantium, the Reluctant Warrior," in Noble Ideals and Bloody Realities: Warfare in the Midle Ages, 378-1492, ed. Maya Yazigi and Niall Christie (Leiden: Brill, 2006), pp. 209-33.

"The Struggle for Survival (641-780)," in The Oxford History of Byzantium, ed. Cyril Mango (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 129-50.

"Observations on Finishing a General History of Byzantium," in Aëtos: Studies in Honor of Cyril Mango (Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner, 1998).

"Photius and the Reading Public for Classical Philology in Byzantium," in Byzantium and the Classical Tradition, ed. M. Mullet and R. Scott (Birmingham, 1980).

Graduate Students

David Parnell
Joseph Reidy

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