British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Byzantium and the Crusades:
Towards an Integrated Prosopography
(1081-1204)
13-14 December 2002
The British Academy
10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
Organisers: Professor Averil Cameron, FBA Keble College, Oxford
and Professor Judith Herrin, King's College London
This symposium aims to bring together specialists in western medieval history relating to the Crusades and commercial activity in the East Mediterranean, and experts in the history of those regions of the Near East affected by the western crusaders and merchants: the Byzantine Empire, Cilician Armenia, Cyprus, Syria, Palestine, Georgia, the Balkans, Russia. It will also draw on specialists from the fields of historical geography, economic history, archaeology, art history and palaeography, in all the relevant languages.
Invited speakers include: Professors, Jonathan Riley-Smith (Cambridge); Peter Edbury (Cardiff) for the Crusades; Stephen Rapp (Atlanta: USA); Carole Hillenbrand (Edinburgh); Michel Balard (Paris) and Vera von Falkenhausen (Rome); Simon Franklin (Cambridge); Michael Jeffreys (King's College London) and Miss Julian Chrysostomides (RHUL); Dr Krijnie Ciggaar (Leiden); Dr Tim Greenwood (Oxford) and Dr Chase Robinson (Oxford).
All interested scholars and students are encouraged to attend. The conference will take place at the British Academy from 13-14 December 2002.
A programme for this symposium is currently available.
For further information contact:
Angela Pusey, Meetings Department
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1
Telephone: 020 7969 5264
Email: a.pusey@britac.ac.uk
Text publication
Papers from this conference were published in 2007 as
Byzantines and Crusaders in Non-Greek Sources, 1025-1204, edited by Mary Whitby (Proceedings of the British Academy, 132)