Alice-Mary Talbot

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Alice-Mary Talbot (born May 16, 1939) [1] is director of Byzantine studies emerita, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Her particular expertise is the social context of Byzantine religious practices, including hagiography, monasticism and gender studies. [2] Much of her work has focused on the edition and translation of Byzantine texts. [3]

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Education and career

Talbot received a B.A. in Classics from Radcliffe College. She completed her M.A. and PhD (1970) in Byzantine and Ottoman History at Columbia University. Her doctoral thesis was entitled The correspondence of Athanasius, patriarch of Constantinople (1289–1293; 1303–1309) with the emperor Andronicus II (two volumes). [4] Her PhD supervisor was Ihor Ševčenko. [5] Talbot taught at several colleges in Ohio, as well as being a junior fellow of Byzantine studies (1966–1968) at Dumbarton Oaks. [6] She was a senior fellow of Byzantine studies (1978–1983) at Dumbarton Oaks, and a Byzantine studies visiting senior research associate (1991–1992). She was the advisor for the Hagiography Project (1992–1997) and the advisor for Byzantine publications (1996–1997). From 1997 to 2009 she was director of Byzantine studies and editor of Dumbarton Oaks Papers. [3] She was a senior fellow (ex-officio) of Byzantine Studies (1997–2008). [7] She was the Executive Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, published in 1991. [2] [3]

Talbot's scholarship profoundly influenced the field of Byzantine studies in America and Europe. [2] She has authored four books, is the editor or co-editor of four further books, and is the author of more than seventy articles. [8] (xxi) She was president of the Medieval Academy of America during 2011–12. [9]

Honours

In 2010, Talbot was elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. [10] In 2012, Talbot was honoured with a Festschrift, Byzantine Religious Culture: Studies in Honor of Alice-Mary Talbot, published by Brill. This featured twenty-five contributions, and was edited by Denis Sullivan, Elizabeth A. Fisher, and Stratis Papaioannou. Talbot received an honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews in 2015. [11] In his laureation address, Tim Greenwood commented on Talbot that 'in a career spanning more than fifty years, she has profoundly transformed the study of religious culture in the world of Byzantium, both through her own scholarly output and her selfless support of others.' [6]

Selected bibliography

Books

Edited works

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