Dame Averil Cameron
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Late antiquity and Byzantium. From Leek, FirstGen, mum and granny. Opinions my own.
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For all those piling in on
@wmarybeard
I have known her since she was a graduate student and few people have done more to encourage marginalised groups in classics. So think about laying off.
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Sinclair Hood, archaeologist, excavator of Knossos and ex- Director of the British School at Athens, died yesterday at 103, having published his last book last year.
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Very honoured and grateful!
@KebleOxford
@KebleAlumni
Many, many congratulations to the OCBR's
@19Averil
Professor Dame Averil Cameron who has been awarded the
@BritishAcademy_
Kenyon Medal for her lifetime contribution to Byzantine studies! A superb achievement!
@UniofOxford
@oxfordclassics
#AcademicTwitter
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Magnificent speech by Jess Phillips. She had a very specific question. It was not answered. She requested something practical. No answer was given. The PM was not there. Hapless junior minister had to reply.
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Pericles was an imperialist and a populist. Alcibiades was without shame or scruples and led the Athenians to disaster. And in the end the Spartans won. Just saying.
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Read this with Peter Brown’s memoir, Journeys of the Mind, now out from Princeton
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@JohnGPeet
@StevePeers
I am obviously very naive but I find it hard to grasp that anyone in public life can be quite so blatantly dishonest
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FINALLY got my books sorted and catalogued thanks to wonderful student help ( he’s not on here or I would name him). These are just some.
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I haven't yet heard any proposals for the majority who don't get into grammar schools. That was exactly the trouble before.
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Which schools and why 40?
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The Byzantines thought that old statues were inhabited by demons and might topple over on purpose and hit you
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Nicaea, home to two ecumenical councils, 325 and 787
Gates of Nicaea (modern İznik)
Photos by Paolo Monti (1962) and engravings from Charles Texier (1882)
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Deeply honoured to have been elected President of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, succeeding Runciman and Bryer
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Terrific record, but in jeopardy now if we leave. Already EU colleagues have been told not to include UK in new applications. This is serious for our academic life.
This year UK-based academics have won 43% (23 of 54 available) of the ERC’s Advanced Grants in the humanities and social sciences – up from 25% in 2017 and 22% in 2016.
#ThursdayMotivation
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Byzantium is not well served by linking it to current right wing prejudices. It needs serious academic critique instead.
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Hope it’s still useful - I think it should be and it was such a good collaboration
Another valuable addition to the personal library.
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I’m overwhelmed by the reactions to my Kenyon Medal. Twitter can be very very kind!
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Byzantine Matters | Princeton University Press sale, Wow, only $6.75
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Tories will use lawyers when it suits them
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I've just heard the sad news that Philip Rousseau of the Catholic University of America died last night after a short illness. An old friend and a fine scholar of late antiquity. RIP Philip.
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Since when has this been true? Terribly out of date idea, what has he been reading?
True the Roman Empire was effectively destroyed by immigration.
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Cyril Mango, great Byzantinist, is 90 today. Many congratulations.
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Between my successor and his successor as Wardens of Keble College
@KebleAlumni
@KebleOxford
(photo by Michael Hawcroft)
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Immensely honoured to be the new president of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies. I was in at the beginning in 1983
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Fergus Millar, friend and teacher to so so many, surrounded by fans at his 84th birthday celebration
It was very very good to be together this morning.
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In founding Constantinople Constantine cannot have had any idea of what it would become. It was very like the other tetrarchic capitals. Nor did he know what his support for Christians would lead to,
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Coming soon
From the Later Roman Empire to Late Antiquity and Beyond (Routledge)
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Historic Lamb & Flag pub in Oxford announces reopening date
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You dont have to be a Roman Catholic to find this very moving
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It was a privilege to be the Warden of Keble for 16 years and now it's 150 years old
@KebleOxford
@KebleAlumni
#150
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@allisonpearson
@bbclaurak
@BBCNews
Breathtakingly awful comment. Well done Beth and Laura.
@BethRigby
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A happier new year than the last to all my followers - we certainly deserve it.
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RIP to my dear friend and inspiration Liz Clark. As well as her scholarship she really had the gift of friendship.
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From the Later Roman Empire to Late Antiquity and Beyond - 1st Edition, out on Monday
@SophieCam
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Just a corrective: Constantine did not make the Roman Empire Christian and Helena did not find the true cross. That does not mean the Council of Nicaea was not crucially important.
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What Constantine did in Constantinople is very much on this tetrarchic pattern
Reconstructions of the Palace of Galerius in Thessaloniki from Ephorate of Antiquities of Thessaloniki
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Archaeologists prepare to open huge granite sarcophagus in Alexandria
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All you Byzantine tweeters, you can’t just equate Byzantium and Orthodoxy, standard mistake
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11 May, celebrated as the day of the inauguration of Constantinople, 330 CE - hooray!
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Mark Whittow, whom I knew for over 25 years, and who leaves an enormous gap, personally and academically.
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Back in the ?1970s academics were required to quantify their hours and Arnoldo Momigliano famously replied that ALL his hours were spent thinking about and doing ancient history
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Prof Elizabeth Jeffreys obituary
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This is one of the earliest icons of the Virgin
In this very dark moment, the pope appeals to the traditional protectress of Rome, the Virgin Mary, through the icon "Salus populi romani" (lit. "health of the people of Rome") – now as he did in the medieval period. But this time she has been brought to the atrium of St Peter's
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End of Erasmus is another blow to modern language teaching just when it’s needed
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What a mess. The collapse of a really valuable scheme that has worked so well for 30 years
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It’s good to have classics in the news but Johnson is not the model classics needs at this stage of its history and when so many people are working so hard to open it out
@tigerlilyrocks
@MaiMusie
@edithmayhall
@Woolf_Greg
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Terrible news for academics, students and research if we will not be in Erasmus or EU research programmes
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@greg_jenner
The attack on the BBC is part of a general war on serious education, expert knowledge etc in favour of out and out populism
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A decent society would make sure all schools are funded well, have enough space and clear agreed guidelines. We have none of these.
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In Byzantine visual art and in Romanos's hymns in the 6th century Satan gave up the keys of Hades to Christ who went down and brought out Adam and Eve and the prophets who had foretold his coming. You can see the keys and broken gates, and Adam and Eve being pulled up.
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Savings guru Martin Lewis criticises Liz Truss as £4,400 energy bills forecast
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Extraordinarily impressive building even now
The Aula Palatina, also known as the Basilica of Constantine (Konstantinbasilika), located in Trier, Germany, is a Roman palace basilica commissioned by the Emperor Constantine I, completed in 310. It is an example of a Constantinian building today used by the Evangelical Church.
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Blaming the BBC for taking away free TV licences is exactly what the Govt intended to happen when it passed on the responsibility and cut the BBC’s funding.
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In praise of digitisation
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John Julius Norwich obituary
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Group of 15 birdwatchers had to be broken up in Oxon today
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Too many people moralizing about the Notre Dame fire. It is quite simply a tragedy.
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Tuesday next, launch of my new Variorum book at Trinity College Oxford, 5 pm. Online too with Peter Brown from Princeton.
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One of my very favourite objects from late antiquity
A late 6th-century silver plaque depicting Simeon Stylites; originally part of the treasure of the church of Ma'arrat an Numan in Syria & now in the Louvre:
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Devastating exposure of Boris Johnson’s dreadful book on Churchill
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Really lovely pic
Snow at the Hippodrome of Constantinople (At Meydanı) in Sultanahmet
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No, not a Greek Cathedral, but the central and most important building in the entire BYzantine world and 1100 years of Byzantine history.
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RIP Lellia Cracco Ruggini, great Italian historian of late antiquity, 1931-2021
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Heartfelt thread about the significance of Hagia Sophia
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Great news for Byzantinists - John Haldon, the international president, made an FBA
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Those limestone buildings have stood pretty well for about 1500 years, and after all they have not been bombed on the scale of the rest, but what could be more poignant
Many displaced Syrians are finding sanctuary in ancient cities within the country
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If you mean the term Byzantine it was invented in the 17th century and designed to be derogatory
@RichardHebditch
Nothing wrong with Byzantine,
more accurately synonymous with a prestigious legacy and heroic tenacity
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Very sad and incredibly moving funeral of Professor Elizabeth Jeffrey’s yesterday. Scholar, wife, mother and friend
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Wonderful, I am fascinated by Manuel II
#earlymusic
#oudemuziek
CD review: 'A Byzantine Emperor at King Henry's Court - Christmas 1400, London' (Cappella Romana/Alexander Lingas)
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The attack on universities has happened very quickly (easy target?) and is very dangerous for us as a society
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My review of de Ste Croix, Class Struggle in THES Feb 19 1982, the one that provoked his onslaught
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Walking home, a man out of breath asked me if I could direct him to ‘Archimedes Place, or something’. Me: do you mean Aristotle Lane? Yes!
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Saving Ravenna
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Garima Gospels in peril as fighting rages around Ethiopian monastery. Let us hope they are safe
@ManarAlAthar
@OxfordByzantine
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Large Roman fort built by Caligula discovered near Amsterdam
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