Margaret Mullett
Biographic Data
| ID | 5629451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Mullett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Mullett |
| SIGNATURE | MULLETT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9765-2088 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Advising the Byzantines
What do we mean by advice ( parainesis) in Byzantium? By looking at distinctions made in handbooks of letter-writing we can distinguish parainetic writing from didactic, and from protreptic. We can see that advice has several affinities: to rhetoric, to ‘how-to’ works of practical utility, and to ophelitic chapter literature in centuries. We can also discern patterns of who gives advice to whom: individual to individual or group, father to son, i…
Dame Averil Cameron (8 February 1940–7 April 2026)
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Early Christian and Byzantine art
Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond
Eunuchism was a subject which both intrigued and embarrassed the ancient world. The special virtue attributed to the castrated male at court, of undistracted loyalty to his ruler, aided the promotion of numerous eunuchs to positions of great power. A literary discourse developed, reviling and sometimes defending the eminence of these 'half-men'. Here, thirteen new studies from an international cast explore how eunuchs were perceived, and also rec…
Rosemary Morris, Monks and Laymen in Byzantium, 843–1118. Cambridge
Paul Magdalino, The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos 1143–1180. Cambridge
The Uses of Literacy in Early Mediaeval Europe
This book investigates the ways in which literacy was important in early mediaeval Europe, and examines the context of literacy, its uses, levels, and distribution, in a number of different early mediaeval societies between c. 400 and c. 1000. The studies, by leading scholars in the field, set out to provide the factual basis from which assessments of the significance of literacy in the early mediaeval world can be made, as well as analysing the …
Dancing With Deconstructionists in the Gardens of the Muses
In 1981 I noted that Byzantine literature has never had a good press, least of all from its own students. It was not hard to document this assertion
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The Uses of Literacy in Early Mediaeval Europe
This book investigates the ways in which literacy was important in early mediaeval Europe, and examines the context of literacy, its uses, levels, and distribution, in a number of different early mediaeval societies between c. 400 and c. 1000. The studies, by leading scholars in the field, set out to provide the factual basis from which assessments of the significance of literacy in the early mediaeval world can be made, as well as analysing the …
Dancing With Deconstructionists in the Gardens of the Muses
In 1981 I noted that Byzantine literature has never had a good press, least of all from its own students. It was not hard to document this assertion
Rosemary Morris, Monks and Laymen in Byzantium, 843–1118. Cambridge
Paul Magdalino, The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos 1143–1180. Cambridge
Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond
Eunuchism was a subject which both intrigued and embarrassed the ancient world. The special virtue attributed to the castrated male at court, of undistracted loyalty to his ruler, aided the promotion of numerous eunuchs to positions of great power. A literary discourse developed, reviling and sometimes defending the eminence of these 'half-men'. Here, thirteen new studies from an international cast explore how eunuchs were perceived, and also rec…
Early Christian and Byzantine art
Advising the Byzantines
What do we mean by advice ( parainesis) in Byzantium? By looking at distinctions made in handbooks of letter-writing we can distinguish parainetic writing from didactic, and from protreptic. We can see that advice has several affinities: to rhetoric, to ‘how-to’ works of practical utility, and to ophelitic chapter literature in centuries. We can also discern patterns of who gives advice to whom: individual to individual or group, father to son, i…
Dame Averil Cameron (8 February 1940–7 April 2026)
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History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (2 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (2 works) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)