Stephenson, Paul (Personal Name)

Byzantium's Balkan frontier, 2000: CIP t.p. (Paul Stephenson) galley (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Keble College, Oxford)

His The Serpent Column, 2016: ECIP title page (Paul Stephenson)

Radboud Universiteit (Nijmegen, Netherlands), Department of History website, March 18, 2016 (Prof. Dr. P. (Paul) Stephenson; Paul Stephenson; his studies include: early and middle Byzantine periods (A.D. 300-1204); published work focuses on middle Byzantine political and cultural history; the history and historiography of Southeastern Europe, medieval to modern; and religious warfare; currently he is completing a cultural history of a Byzantine monument, the Serpent Column; researching late antique and Byzantine views of sacred warfare and spiritual combat; editing separate volumes on the desire for Byzantium outside former Byzantine lands, and on the fountains of Byzantion/Constantinople/Istanbul; and writing a general history of the Late Roman Empire in the East, c. 400-843, for Harvard Univ. Press and Profile Books; he has taught in the UK, Republic of Ireland, and the USA, and held research fellowships from the British Academy (in Oxford), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (in Mainz), the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation (in Athens), and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (in Uppsala); for five years he was Professor of Medieval History at Durham University, and for six years before that the Rowe Professor of Byzantine History at Dumbarton Oaks and the University of Wisconsin-Madison; in 2011-12 he was Vassiliadis Visiting Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego; his publications include: Byzantium's Balkan Frontier : a Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204, Cambridge University Press 2000)