Warren T. Treadgold (born April 30, 1949, Oxford, England) is an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

and specialist in

Byzantine studies Byzantine studies is an interdisciplinary branch of the humanities that addresses the history, culture, demography, dress, religion/theology, art, literature/epigraphy, music, science, economy, coinage and politics of the Eastern Roman Empire. T ...

. He is the National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Byzantine Studies at Saint Louis University. His interest in the political, economic, military, social, and cultural history of the

Byzantine Empire The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...

extends to the Byzantine historians themselves. Treadgold has also taught at

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California ...

, Stanford, Hillsdale,

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, and

Florida International University Florida International University (FIU) is a public research university with its main campus in Miami-Dade County. Founded in 1965, the school opened its doors to students in 1972. FIU has grown to become the third-largest university in Florid ...

. He is married since September 25, 1982 to Irina Andreescu-Treadgold.

Education

Treadgold holds an AB from

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(1970) and a PhD from the same university (1977).

Books

* ''The University We Need: Reforming America’s Higher Education'' (New York:

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, 2018); * ''The Middle Byzantine Historians'' (New York:

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, 2013); * ''The Early Byzantine Historians'' (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007); * ''A Concise History of Byzantium'' (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001); * * ''Byzantium and Its Army, 284–1081'' (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995); * * ''The Byzantine State Finances in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries'' (New York: East European Monographs, 1982); and * ''The Nature of the Bibliotheca of Photius'' (Washington, D.C.:

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, 1980).

References

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Biographical Note
''Academia.edu''. Retrieved 2019-04-10. {{DEFAULTSORT:Treadgold, Warren American medievalists American Byzantinists Harvard University alumni Saint Louis University faculty Living people 1949 births Scholars of Byzantine history