Byzantine Tents and the Global Middle Ages, lecture by Margaret Mullett (Queen's University Belfast), Bilkent University, December 16, 2019, 2:30 pm

Margaret Mullett read Medieval History and Medieval Latin at Birmingham University. After a postgraduate year in Greece she returned to Birmingham to work with Anthony Bryer on Byzantine letter-writing, resulting in a PhD on the letter-collection of Theophylact of Ochrid. She was appointed to a lectureship in Greek in Queen's University Belfast in 1974, a lectureship in Byzantine Studies in 1983 and senior lectureship in 1992. She has held research fellowships at Dumbarton Oaks (Center for Byzantine Studies) and at Princeton (Program in Hellenic Studies); she held a British Academy Research Readership from 1995 to 1997. She is director of the British Academy's Evergetis Project (an international and interdisciplinary project on middle Byzantine monasticism) and sits on the Academy committee for the Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire. She is general editor of Belfast Byzantine Texts and Translations, and on the editorial boards of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Dialogos and Histos. She is currently working on eleventh- and twelfth-century literary networks, consolatio, travel genres, eunuchs, typika and letters. She is also QUB Director for the Gender Initiative.

The lecture is part of the Byzantium at Ankara seminar series, a collaboration between Hacettepe University and Bilkent University.