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An Accidental Scholar
- The Catholic Historical Review
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Volume 107, Number 1, Winter 2021
- pp. 1-27
- 10.1353/cat.2021.0000
- Article
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Abstract:
In this essay I reflect on my development as a scholar of late antiquity and Byzantium over many decades. I was a Classics undergraduate at Oxford in the late 1950s, and my subsequent history took me first to Glasgow, then to London as a professor and back to Oxford as the head of a college and a pro-vice-chancellor, with several stays in the United States along the way. I have been lucky enough to be able to follow my intellectual curiosity in numerous directions, but always as a historian, and especially as a historian curious about the history of religion.