Dame Averil Cameron FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 1981
- Year of death
- 2026
- Honours
- DBE, CBE
- Subjects
- Classics, Medieval studies
- Sections
- Classical Antiquity , Medieval Studies
Summary
Averil Cameron read Greats at Somerville College, Oxford and taught ancient history and subsequently Byzantine studies at King's College London until becoming Warden of Keble College, Oxford. She has been Editor of JRS, President of the Roman Society, Chair of the Society for Byzantine Studies and President of FIEC. She has been the President of the Council for British Research in the Levant since 2004.
Her research interests have covered the Roman empire, and historiography, but more recently she has specialised in Byzantine history. Recent research interests include Byzantium and early Islam and the dialogue form in Byzantium.
Last post
Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, Aldershot President
2017 - 2022
Council for British Research in the Levant President
2004 -
Past appointments
Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford Leverhume Emeritus Fellowship
2011 - 2013
Keble College, Oxford Warden
1994 - 2010
King's College London Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies
1989 - 1994
King's College London Professor of Ancient History
1978 - 1989
Publications
Arguing it Out: Discussion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium
Averil Cameron - Published in 2016 by Central European University Press
Christianity and the rhetoric of empire
Averil Cameron - Published in 1991 by University of California Press
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The economic history of late-medieval Britain and Ireland, with particular reference to human-environment interactions during the 14th century and trends in agricultural output and productivity from the 13th to 19th centuries
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History, culture and societies in the Ancient Near East, during the Achaemenid period and the period of Alexander's conquests
Professor Eleanor Dickey FBA
Greek and Latin languages and literature; ancient scholarship; ancient bilingualism and second-language learning; politeness and forms of address in Latin and Greek; sociolinguistics of ancient languages
