Margaret Elizabeth Mullett (OBE) (born 1946) is a British historian. She is a professor emerita of Byzantine studies at Queen's University Belfast, and is a former director of Byzantine studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C., the foremost centre for the study of Byzantium in North America. Mullett is a leading proponent of a more theoretical approach to Byzantine studies and Byzantine texts.
Mullett read Medieval History and Medieval Latin at Birmingham University. [1] She received her PhD from the Centre for Byzantine Studies, Birmingham University, in 1981. Her dissertation was entitled, Theophylact Through His Letters: the Two Worlds of an Exile Bishop. [2]
As Director at Dumbarton Oaks, Mullett was also the editor of Dumbarton Oaks Papers. [3] Previous to her position at Dumbarton Oaks, she was a Professor of Byzantine Studies and Director of the Institute of Byzantine Studies at the Queen's University of Belfast and Director of the Queen's Gender Initiative. [4] [5] She is the author of Theophylact of Ochrid: Reading the Letters of a Byzantine Archbishop, Variorum, 1997. [4] With Judith Herrin and Catherine Otten-Froux, she edited a Festchrift for A. H. S. Megaw, published in 2001 by the British School in Athens. [6]
Mullett was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2006. [7] [8]
A portrait of Mullet was unveiled at Queen's University Belfast and will hang in the university's Great Hall, alongside other luminaries of the university. [9]
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