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Central European University Press
The long twelfth century, from the seizure of the throne by Alexius I Comnenus in 1081, to the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, is a period recognized as fostering the most brilliant cultural development in Byzantine history, especially in its literary production. It was a time of intense creativity as well as of rising tensions, and one for which literary approaches are a... Read more
Preface and Acknowledgements, Introduction, Chapter 1. Inside Byzantium, Chapter 2. Latins and Greeks, Chapter 3. Jews and Muslims, Conclusions, Bringing it Together, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Averil Cameron taught at King’s College London from 1965 to 1994, and was chair of the then new Society for Byzantine Studies (SPBS), as well as the founding Director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies at King’s. Having originally read classics at Oxford, she moved back there in 1994 to become Warden of Keble College, a post from which she retired in 2010; she then became the chair of the new Oxford Centre of Byzantine Research (OCBR).
