Judith Herrin

Judith Herrin, an English historian and archaeologist, was born in 1942. She attended Bedales School, studied history at Newnham College, Cambridge, and received her doctorate from the University of Birmingham in 1972; she also trained in Paris, Athens and Munich. She worked as an archaeologist with the British School at Athens and, as a Dumbarton Oaks fellow, at the site of the Kalenderhane Mosque in Istanbul. From 1991 to 1995 she was Stanley J. Seeger Professor of Byzantine History at Princeton University, and in 1995 she became professor of Late Antique and Byzantine studies at King's College London, where she headed the Centre for Hellenic Studies until retiring in 2008. In 2011 she was president of the International Congress of Byzantine Studies. Her books include The Formation of Christendom (1987), Women in Purple, Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire (2007), written for general readers, and Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe, which won the Duff Cooper Prize for 2020. In 2016 she received the Heineken Prize for History.

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