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Margaret Mullett

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Margaret Elizabeth Mullett (OBE) (born 1946) is a British historian. She is a professor emerita of Byzantine studies at Queen's University Belfast, and is a former director of Byzantine studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C., the foremost centre for the study of Byzantium in North America. Mullett is a leading proponent of a more theoretical approach to Byzantine studies and Byzantine texts.

Education

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Mullett read Medieval History and Medieval Latin at Birmingham University.[1] She received her PhD from the Centre for Byzantine Studies, Birmingham University, in 1981. Her dissertation was entitled, Theophylact Through His Letters: the Two Worlds of an Exile Bishop.[2]

Career

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As Director at Dumbarton Oaks, Mullett was also the editor of Dumbarton Oaks Papers.[3] Previous to her position at Dumbarton Oaks, she was a Professor of Byzantine Studies and Director of the Institute of Byzantine Studies at the Queen's University of Belfast and Director of the Queen's Gender Initiative.[4][5] She is the author of Theophylact of Ochrid: Reading the Letters of a Byzantine Archbishop, Variorum, 1997.[4] With Judith Herrin and Catherine Otten-Froux, she edited a Festchrift for A. H. S. Megaw, published in 2001 by the British School in Athens.[6]

Mullett was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2006.[7][8]

A portrait of Mullet was unveiled at Queen's University Belfast and will hang in the university's Great Hall, alongside other luminaries of the university.[9]

Bibliography

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  • Knowing Bodies, Passionate Souls: Sense Perception in Byzantium (ed. by Susan Ashbrook Harvey and Margaret Mullett) (Washington, D.C): Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection, 2017)
  • Mosaic: Festschrift for A.H.S Megaw, ed. by Judith Herrin, Margaret Mullett, and Catherine Otten-Froux (London: British School in Athens, 2001)
  • Theophylact of Ochrid: Reading the Letters of a Byzantine Archbishop (Variorum, 1997)

References

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  1. ^ "Byzantine Tents and the Global Middle Ages | Mary Jaharis Center". The Mary Jaharis Center. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  2. ^ "Register". birmingham-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
  3. ^ "Margaret Mullett, Director of Byzantine Studies". Dumbarton Oaks. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
  4. ^ a b "Margaret MULLETT BA, PhD, FSA". Queen's University Belfast. Archived from the original on 21 August 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
  5. ^ "How to make the old dinosaurs sing and dance to the tune and dance to the tune of the new-girl network". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
  6. ^ "Register". birmingham-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
  7. ^ "Queen's Birthday Honours 2006". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
  8. ^ "VICE-CHANCELLOR'S BUSINESS" (PDF). Queen's University Belfast. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
  9. ^ Queen's University, Belfast (June 2016). "SCHOOL OF HISTORY & ANTHROPOLOGY NEWSLETTER" (PDF). Queen's University Belfast.