Cyril Mango

Cyril Alexander Mango ( born April 14, 1928 in Istanbul ) is a British Byzantinist.

Life and work

Mango was born in Istanbul as one of three sons of a Greek -English- Russian family; his brother is the Turkey specialist and writer Andrew Mango. After his basic education in Istanbul, where among other things, Ernest Mamboury one of his teachers was, he studied Classics at St Andrews.

Throughout his academic career, he held three of the most important professorships: 1963-1968 Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King's College London; 1968-1973 Professor of Byzantine Archaeology at Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University; 1973-1995 Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature at the University of Oxford.

Mango operates one of the few scientists in all fields of Byzantine Studies: philology, history, epigraphy and archeology. It can be regarded as one of the most important Byzantinists the present.

Publications

Monographs

  • The Brazen House. A study of the vestibule of the imperial palace of Constantinople. Copenhagen 1959 ( Arkaeologisk - kunsthistoriske Meddelelser af det Royal Danish Videnskabernes Selskab, 4.4 ).
  • With Ekrem Akurgal, Richard Ettinghausen: Turkey and its art treasures. The Anatolia early kingdoms, Byzantium, the Islamic period. Geneva 1966.
  • The art of the Byzantine empire 312 - 1453 Sources and documents.. Englewood Cliffs 1972.
  • Architettura bizantina. Milan 1974. German edition: Byzantine architecture. Stuttgart 1975.
  • English edition: Byzantine architecture. New York 1976.
  • French edition: Architecture byzantine. Paris 1981.

Text editions

  • Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople, Short history. Text, transl. , And commentary by Cyril Mango. Washington, DC, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1990 ( Corpus fontium historiae Byzantinae, 13, Series washingtoniensis = Dumbarton Oaks texts, 10).
  • The chronicle of Theophanes Confessor: Byzantine and Near Eastern history, AD 284-813. Transl. with introd. and commentary by Cyril Mango and Roger Scott. Oxford, Clarendon Press 1997.
  • The correspondence of Ignatius the Deacon. Text, translation, and commentary by Cyril Mango. Washington, DC, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection 1997 ( Corpus fontium historiae Byzantinae, 39, Series washingtoniensis = Dumbarton Oaks texts, 11).
  • With Stéphane Yerasimos: Melchior Lorichs ' Panorama of Istanbul, 1559 Commentary text. . Istanbul, Ertug & Kocabıyık 1999.

Editorial Boards

  • (Ed.): The Oxford history of Byzantium. Oxford, Oxford University Press 2002.

List of Publications

  • List of publications of Cyril Mango. In: Αετος. Studies in honor of Cyril Mango presented to him on April 14, 1998 (Stuttgart 1998), XIII -XX.

Supplements to the font directory

  • La voix des monuments. In: Mélanges de l' Ecole Française de Rome: Moyen âge 110 (1998) 931-939.
  • The origins of the Blachernae shrine at Constantinople. In: Radovi XIII. Međunarodnog kongresa za starokršćansku arheologiju. Acta XIII Congressus Internationalis Archaeologiae Christianae. Split - Poreč 25.9. - 01/10/1994 (Split 1998) Vol 2, 61-76.
  • The triumphal way of Constantinople and the Golden Gate. In: Dumbarton Oaks Papers 54 (2000) 173-188. (PDF)
  • From Constantinople to Cologne: the three Magi. In: Polypleuros nus. Miscellanea for Peter Schreiner for his 60th birthday (Munich, Leipzig 2000) 200-203.
  • Constantinople as Theotokoupolis. In: Mother of God. The representation of the Virgin in Byzantine art. Athens, Milan 2000, pp. 17-25
  • The shoreline of Constantinople in the fourth century. In: Byzantine Constantinople. Monuments, topography and everyday life. Leiden 2001, pp. 17-28.
  • Sir Steven Runciman, 07.07.1903 - 1.11.2000. In: Byzantine Journal 94 ( 2001) 911-912.
  • The Mystery of the XIV région de Constantinople. In: Travaux et Mémoires du Centre de recherche d' Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance 14 (2002) 449-545.
  • A memorial to the emperor Maurice? In: Deltion tes Christianikes Archaiologikes Hetaireias 24 (2003) 15-20.
  • Septime Sévère et Byzance. In: Comptes rendus de l' Académie - des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres (2003) 593-608.
  • A fake inscription of the empress Eudocia and Pulcheria 's relic of Saint Stephen. In: Nea Rhome 1 (2004) 23-34.

Tributes

Commemorative

  • Stephanos Efthymiadis, Claudia Rapp, Dimitris Tsougarakis (ed. ): Bosphorus. Essays in honor of Cyril Mango. Amsterdam, Hakkert 1995 ( Byzantine Research, 21), ISBN 90-256-0619-9, ISBN 90-256-1083-8.
  • Ihor Shevchenko, Irmgard Hutter (ed. ): Αετος. Studies in honor of Cyril Mango presented to him on April 14, 1998. Stuttgart, Teubner 1998, ISBN 3-519-07440-0.
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