Margaret Elizabeth Mullett ( OBE ) (1946-) is Professor Emerita of Byzantine Studies at

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. She 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

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in North America. Mullett is a leading proponent of a more theoretical approach to Byzantine studies and Byzantine texts.

Education

Mullett read Medieval History and Medieval Latin at Birmingham University. 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''.

Career

As Director at Dumbarton Oaks, Mullett was also the editor of Dumbarton Oaks Papers. Previous to her position at Dumbarton Oaks, she was a Professor of Byzantine Studies and Director of the Institute of Byzantine Studies at the

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and Director of the Queen's Gender Initiative. She is the author of '' Theophylact of Ochrid: Reading the Letters of a Byzantine Archbishop'', Variorum, 1997. With Judith Herrin and

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, she edited a '' Festchrift'' for A. H. S. Megaw, published in 2001 by the British School in Athens. Mullett was created an

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(OBE) in the

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2006. A portrait of Mullet was unveiled at

and will hang in the university's Great Hall, alongside other luminaries of the university.

Bibliography

* ''Knowing Bodies, Passionate Souls: Sense Perception in Byzantium'' (ed. by

Susan Ashbrook Harvey Susan Ashbrook Harvey (born 1953) is the Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence and the Willard Prescott and Annie McClelland Smith Professor of History and Religion at Brown University. She specializes in late antique and Byzantine Chri ...

and Margaret Mullett) (Washington, D.C): Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection, 2017) *''Mosaic: Festschrift for A.H.S Megaw'', ed. by Judith Herrin, Margaret Mullett, and Catherine Otten-Froux (London: British School in Athens, 2001) *''Theophylact of Ochrid: Reading the Letters of a Byzantine Archbishop'' (Variorum, 1997)

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