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John Bagnell Bury (1861-1927) and his age : the contribution and influence of the Irish founder of byzantine studies in Great Britain on the eightieth anniversary of his demise

• Σαββίδης, Αλέξης Γ. Κ.

J. B. Bury was an indefatigable and prolific Irish scholar with an impressive amount of publications both in Ancient Greek and Roman, as well as in Byzantine history (which he termed Late Roman until A.D. 800 and Eastern Roman from that point onwards), in the last decade of the nineteenth century through the 1920s; his books on History of Greece to the death of Alexander the Great, on The Later Roman Empire, and on The Eastern Roman Empire are considered to be classics in their fields and are still profitably utilized by scholars all over the world. Bury contributed greatly to the development of byzantinology in Great Britain and his role in the planning, organization and original publication of Cambridge Ancient History and Cambridge Medieval History was instrumental. The present article attempts, on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of his death in Rome, a delineation of his academic career, placing it in the framework of the careers of several of his British and other European and Russian contemporaries, while it also refers to his immediate successors, who helped shape British byzantinology from the 1930s onwards.

• History and Archaeology
• Languages and Literature

• Πολιτισμός, Βυζαντινός
• Ιστορία
• Βυζαντινή φιλολογία

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