Averil Cameron

Dame Averil Millicent Cameron, DBE FBA ( born February 8, 1940) is a British Althistorikerin and Byzantinistin.

Averil Cameron was a professor of ancient history (1978-1989) and Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (1989-1994) at King's College London. She is since 2006 Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History and Pro- Vice-Chancellor at the University of Oxford. By September 2010, she was Warden (head ) of Keble College, Oxford. At Oxford, she is the Chair of the Advisory Board for honorary degrees and a member of the Committee for conflicts of interest, the Committee for the nomination of the University of preachers and the Wainwright Fund. She is a member of the Faculty Council of the University of Oxford.

Your non-academic responsibilities may include the chairs of the Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England and the Institute of Classical Studies Advisory Council, vice-chair of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. Cameron is president of the Ecclesiastical History Society and the Council for British Archaeology in the Levant and the Fédération Internationale des Associations d' Études Classiques.

Together with Peter Brown about it is one of the most prominent among those historians who argue for a more positive reassessment of late antiquity ( about 300 to 600 AD ). She was also one of the editors of the volumes 12 to 14 of the newly revised Cambridge Ancient History.

For their research, Cameron was awarded numerous academic honors and memberships. Cameron received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Warwick, St Andrews, Aberdeen and Queen's University of Belfast. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, the British Academy, the Ecclesiastical History Society and King's College London. Cameron is a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen since 2006. Due to its merits, she was knighted by Queen as Lady Commander (DBE ) of the Order of the British Empire in the personal ( non- hereditary ) nobility.

She was long married to the classical philologist and historian Alan Cameron.

Writings

  • Agathias. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1970, ISBN 0-19-814352-4 ( At the same time: dissertation).
  • Procopius and the Sixth Century. Duckworth, London, 1985, ISBN 0-7156-1510-7 ( ISBN formally wrong ).
  • Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire. The Development of Christian Discourse ( Sather Classical Lectures = 55). University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, etc., 1991, ISBN 0-520-07160-3.
  • The Later Roman Empire. AD 284-430. Fontana Press, London 1993, ISBN 0-00-686172-5.
  • The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, AD 395-700. Routledge, London ua 1993, ISBN 0-415-01420-4 (2nd edition. Ibid. 2012, ISBN 978-0-415-57961-2 ( review ) ).
  • As editors: Images of Women in Antiquity. Improved output. Routledge, London 1993, ISBN 0-415-09095-4.
  • The Cambridge Ancient History: Volume 12: as an editor with Alan K. Bowman, Peter Garnsey: The Crisis of Empire, AD 193-337. 2nd edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, inter alia, 2005, ISBN 0-521-30199-8.
  • Volume 13: as an editor with Peter Garnsey: The Late Empire, AD 337-425. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, inter alia, 1998, ISBN 0-521-30200-5.
  • Volume 14: as a publisher with Bryan Ward - Perkins, Michael Whitby: Late Antiquity: Empire and Successors, AD 425-600. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, among others 2000, ISBN 0-521-32591-9.
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