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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Walter Emil Kaegi was a historian and scholar of Byzantine history, professor of history at the University of Chicago, and a Voting Member of The Oriental Institute. He received his B.A. from Haverford College in 1959 and his PhD from Harvard University in 1965. He was known for his researches on the period from the 4th through 11th centuries with a special interest in the advance of Islam, interactions with religion and thought, and military subjects. Kaegi is also distinguished for analyzing the Late Roman period in European and Mediterranean context, and has written extensively on Roman, Vandal, Byzantine and Muslim occupation of North Africa. He was known also as the co-founder of the Byzantine Studies Conference and the editor of the journal Byzantinische Forschungen.
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Published Works
- Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests (1992) (197)
- Heraclius, emperor of Byzantium (2003) (105)
- The Contribution of Archery to the Turkish Conquest of Anatolia (1964) (77)
- Byzantium and the decline of Rome (1968) (72)
- Army, society, and religion in Byzantium (1982) (62)
- Byzantium and the Decline of the Roman Empire (2015) (53)
- The First Arab Expedition against Amorium (1977) (50)
- Initial Byzantine Reactions to the Arab Conquest (1969) (48)
- Arianism and the Byzantine Army in Africa 533-546 (1965) (41)
- Muslim Expansion and Byzantine Collapse in North Africa (2010) (25)
- The Emperor Julian at Naissus (1975) (25)
- Egypt on the eve of the Muslim conquest (1998) (21)
- :The Chronography of George Synkellos: A Byzantine Chronicle of Universal History from the Creation (2007) (21)
- Being Byzantine: Greek Identity before the Ottomans. By Gil Page (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008) 330 pp. $90.00 (2010) (20)
- Byzantine Military Unrest, 471-843: An Interpretation (1981) (17)
- Confronting Islam: Emperors Versus Caliphs (641– c . 850) (2009) (7)
- New Evidence on the early Reign of Heraclius (1973) (7)
- Some thoughts on Byzantine military strategy (1983) (6)
- The Crisis in Military Historiography (1981) (3)
- The Shadow of the Crescent: The Renaissance Image of the Turk (1453–1517) . By Robert Schwoebel. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1967. xiv+257 pp. $12.95 (1969) (3)
- The Fall of the Byzantine Empire: A Chronicle by George Sphrantzes, 1401–1477 . Translated by Marios Philippides. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980. 174 pp. $12.50. (1982) (3)
- The Reign of the Emperor Maurikios (582-602): A Reassessment.Franziska E. Shlosser (1996) (3)
- Notes on Hagiographic Sources for Some Institutional Changes and Continuities in the Early Seventh Century (1975) (3)
- :Procopius of Caesarea: Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity (2007) (3)
- The Transformation of the Roman World, AD 400-900. Leslie Webster , Michelle Brown (2001) (3)
- The Byzantine "Holy War": The Idea and Propagation of Religious War in Byzantium.Athina Kolia-Dermitzaki (1994) (3)
- martin van creveld. Command in War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1985. Pp. vii, 339. $20.00 (1986) (2)
- Two Notes on Heraclius (1979) (2)
- The first Muslim penetrations of Byzantine territory (1992) (1)
- Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests: Byzantium, Armenia, Armenians, and early Islamic conquests (1992) (1)
- The Cambridge Medieval History , Vol. IV: The Byzantine Empire , Part II: Government, Church and Civilization . Ed. by J. M. Hussey, D. M. Nicol, and G. Cowan. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1967. xlii+517 pp. $14.50. (1968) (1)
- George T. Dennis, ed. and trans., Three Byzantine Military Treatises . (Dumbarton Oaks Texts, 9; Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae, 25.) Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1985. Pp. xvi, 380; 15 figures. $28. (1988) (1)
- Byzantine Logistics: Problems and Perspectives (2019) (1)
- Anthony Kaldellis. The Byzantine Republic: People and Power in New Rome. (2016) (1)
- Elements of failure and endurance (1992) (1)
- 14.04.04, Bartusis, Land and Privilege in Byzantium (2014) (1)
- J. F. Haldon, Byzantium in the Seventh Century: The Transformation of a Culture . Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xxiii, 486; black-and-white illustrations, 7 maps. (1994) (1)
- Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests: Problems of cohesion: the battle of Jābiya- Yarmūk reconsidered (1992) (1)
- Eternal Victory: Triumphal Rulership in Late Antiquity, Byzantium, and the Early Medieval West. Michael McCormick (1988) (1)
- Book Review:The Limits of Empire: The Roman Army in the East Benjamin Isaac (1993) (1)
- From Hellenism to Islam: Cultural and Linguistic Change in the Roman Near East (review) (2011) (1)
- I. Eastern Emperors and Western Crises: Official Eastern Responses to the Deterioration of the Western Roman Empire (1968) (1)
- Byzantium and Its Army, 284-1081.Warren Treadgold (1999) (1)
- Angeliki E. Laiou, Constantinople and the Latins: The Foreign Policy of Andronicus II, 1282–1328 . (Harvard Historical Studies, LXXXVIII.) Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1972. Pp. xii, 390; 2 maps. $18. (1975) (0)
- Confronting Islam: Emperors Versus Caliphs (641–c.850) (2019) (0)
- Key to coins (1968) (0)
- Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests: The problem of Byzantium and the early Islamic conquests (1992) (0)
- Theophylact Simocatta, The “History” of Theophylact Simocatta , trans. Michael Whitby and Mary Whitby. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press. 1986. Pp. xxx, 258; 4 maps. $57. (1988) (0)
- Book Review Aristocratic Violence and Holy War: Studies in the Jihad and the Arab-Byzantine Frontier Michael Bonner (2002) (0)
- Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society, 950-1100, by Leonora Neville (2006) (0)
- IV. The Diversity of Christian Reactions (1968) (0)
- Byzantium in the Seventh Century (2015) (0)
- :The Empress Theodora: Partner of Justinian (2005) (0)
- Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests: The Byzantine Empire in an era of accelerating change (1992) (0)
- G. W. Bowersock. Julian the Apostate. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1978. Pp. xii, 135. $12.50 (1979) (0)
- Eric McGeer, Sowing the Dragon's Teeth: Byzantine Warfare in the Tenth Century , Dumbarton Oaks Studies 33 (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1996). Pp. 423. (1997) (0)
- Reviews of Books (1980) (0)
- Book Review Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fifth Century Irfan Shahid (1994) (0)
- Approaches to the Byzantine Family (2016) (0)
- The Le Mans Forgeries. A Chapter from the History of Church Property in the Ninth Century. By Walter Goffart. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1966. Harvard Historical Studies, Vol. LXXVI. xv+382 pp. $8.00. (1968) (0)
- Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests: Early tests in southern Palestine (1992) (0)
- Byzantium: The Imperial Centuries, A.D. 610-1071. Romilly Jenkins (1968) (0)
- Approaches to the Byzantine Family. Edited by Leslie Brubaker and Shaun Tougher. (Farnham, United Kingdom: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. xxv, 417. $119.95.) (2016) (0)
- Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests: Controversy and confidence in the seventh-century crisis (1992) (0)
- Book Reviews (2004) (0)
- g. w. bowersock. Roman Arabia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1983. Pp, xiv, 224. $17.50 (1984) (0)
- Book Review:The Byzantine Apocalyptic Tradition Paul J. Alexander, Dorothy de F. Abrahamse (1987) (0)
- Donald M. Nicol. Byzantium and Venice: A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural Relations. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. x, 465 pp. $59.50. (1991) (0)
- Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests: Preface (1992) (0)
- Book Review:Julian and Hellenism: An Intellectual Biography Polymnia Athanassiadi-Fowden (1984) (0)
- Romans and Barbarians: The Decline of the Western Empire. E. A. Thompson (1983) (0)
- T. S. Brown, Gentlemen and Officers: Imperial Administration and Aristocratic Power in Byzantine Italy A.D. 554–800 . Rome: British School at Rome, 1984. Pp. xvi, 288; 2 maps, 3 figures. £20.50. (1986) (0)
- The Emperor Maurice and His Historian: Theophylact Simocatta on Persian and Balkan Warfare.Michael Whitby (1990) (0)
- From Hellenism to Islam: Cultural and Linguistic Change in the Roman Near East. By Hannah M. Cotton, Robert C. Hoyland, Jonathan J. Price, and David Wasserstein (eds.) (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2009) 481 pp. $129.00 (2011) (0)
- The Byzantine Family of Kantakouzenos (Cantacuzenus) Ca. 1110–1460. By Donald M. Nicol. (Dumbarton Oaks Studies, XI.) Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1968. xliii + 265 pp. $10.00. (1970) (0)
- Books Received (1987) (0)
- The Early Muslim Raids Into Anatolia And Byzantine Reactions Under Emperor Constans II (2007) (0)
- The Byzantine Wars: Battles and Campaigns of the Byzantine Era. John Haldon (2003) (0)
- Witnesses to a World Crisis. Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century. By James Howard-Johnston. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xix + 573 + 9 maps. £105 (cloth). (2013) (0)
- Drift-compensating FOG modulation/signal processing technique (1992) (0)
- Florin Curta. The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, c. 500 to 1050: The Early Middle Ages. (The Edinburgh History of the Greeks.) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2011. Pp. vii, 365. $135.00 (2012) (0)
- Vladimír Vavřínek, ed., From Late Antiquity to Early Byzantium . Proceedings of the Byzantinological Symposium in the 16th International Eirene Conference. Prague: Academia, for the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1985. Pp. 256. (1987) (0)
- Catherine Holmes, Basil II and the Governance of Empire (976–1025) . (Oxford Studies in Byzantium.) Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 625; 4 maps. (2009) (0)
- Byzantine Style, Religion, and Civilization: In Honour of Sir Steven Runciman (review) (2008) (0)
- Byzantium: A World Civilization. Angeliki E. Laiou , Henry Maguire (1997) (0)
- Essays in Medieval History. Selected from the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society on the Occasion of Its Centenary. Edited by R. W. Southern. London, Melbourne, Toronto and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1968. vii+276 pp. $7.50. (1969) (0)
- Research on Julian the Apostate 1945-1964 (1965) (0)
- The Long Seventh Century: Continuity and Discontinuity in an Age of Transition. Edited by Alessandro Gnasso, Emanuele E. Intagliata, Thomas J. MacMaster, and Bethan N. Morris. (New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2014. Pp. vii, 315. $72.95.) (2017) (0)
- III. Zosimus and the Climax of Pagan Historical Apologetics (1968) (0)
- Book Review:The Land Called Holy: Palestine in Christian History and Thought Robert L. Wilken (1994) (0)
- Leslie Brubaker, Inventing Byzantine Iconoclasm . (Studies in Early Medieval History.) London: Bristol Classical Press, 2012. Paper. Pp. xvi, 134; 26 black-and-white figures and 4 maps. ISBN: 9781853997501. (2014) (0)
- Basil II and the Governance of Empire (976-1025). Catherine Holmes (2009) (0)
- States, Resources and Armies. Averil Cameron (2001) (0)
- Manuel II Palaeologus (1391–1425): A Study in Late Byzantine Statesmanship . By John W. Barker. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1969. liii + 614 pp. $25.00. (1970) (0)
- Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests: The brief struggle to save northern Syria and Byzantine Mesopotamia (1992) (0)
- The Populus of Augustine and Jerome: A Study in the Patristic Sense of Community. By Jeremy DuQuesnay Adams. New Haven, Connecticut and London: Yale University Press, 1971. viii + 278 pp. $12.50. (1972) (0)
- George Makdisi et al., ed., La notion d'authorité au Moyen Age. Islam, Byzance, Occident. Colloques Internationaux de La Napoule. Session des 23–26 octobre 1978. (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1982.) Pp. 286. (1984) (0)
- KURT RAAFLAUB and NATHAN ROSENSTEIN (eds.): War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds. Asia, the Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica (2002) (0)
- Being Byzantine: Greek Identity before the Ottomans (review) (2010) (0)
- Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests: Difficulties in devising defenses for Syria (1992) (0)
- Book Reviews (MSR XI.2, 2007) (2007) (0)
- The Last Byzantine Renaissance . By Steven Runciman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. ix + 112 pp. $3.95. (1971) (0)
- Book Review:The Jews under Roman and Byzantine Rule: A Political History from the Bar Kokhba War to the Arab Conquest Michael Avi-Yonah (1988) (0)
- Christopher Macevitt, .The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. vii+272 pp. $49.95 (cloth). (2009) (0)
- Book Review A Temple for Byzantium: The Discovery and Excavation of Anicia Juliana's Palace Church [R.] Martin Harrison (1994) (0)
- J. W. BARKER, Justinian and the later Roman Empire (1967) (0)
- Muhammad: Islam's First Great General (review) (2009) (0)
- Four Martyrdoms from the Pierpont Morgan Coptic Codices . By E. A. E. Reymond and J. W. B. Barns. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. xii + 278 pp. $24.00. (1974) (0)
- Mark Whittow, The Making of Byzantium, 600–1025 . Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996. Pp. xxv, 477; tables and maps. $45 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). (1999) (0)
- Byzantine Philanthropy and Social Welfare . By Demetrios J. Constantelos. New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1968. xxviii+356 pp. $17.50. (1969) (0)
- On War (1978) (0)
- The Christian Centuries from Christ to Dante . By Robert Payne. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1966. 438 pp. $8.95. (1967) (0)
- Nina G. Garsoïan, Thomas F. Mathews, and Robert W. Thomson, eds., East of Byzantium: Syria and Armenia in the Formative Period . Dumbarton Oaks Symposium 1980. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1982. Pp. xii, 222; 60 black-and-white illustrations. $35. (1984) (0)
- Glossar zu Kinderib (Anatolisches Arabisch). Edited by Michael Maas. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xxvii + 626 + 11 maps + 30 pls. $75. (2009) (0)
- Book Reviews (MSR I, 1997) (1997) (0)
- Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541–750. Edited by Lester K. Little. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in association with the American Academy in Rome, 2006. Pp. xiv + 360 + 1 map. $75. (2011) (0)
- V. Divine Providence and the Roman Empire: A Positive Eastern Christian Interpretation of Recent History (1968) (0)
- II. Political and Religious Pagan Protests: Political and Religious Criticism and Opposition in the East, 400-475 (1968) (0)
- Herrin, Judith.Margins and Metropolis: Authority across the Byzantine Empire. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013. xxiv+365 pp. $39.50 (cloth).Herrin, Judith.Unrivalled Influence: Women and Empire in Byzantium. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013. xix+328 pp. $35.00 (cloth). (2014) (0)
- Book Review Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni, 1081-1261 Michael Angold (2002) (0)
- Francis Dvornik, Byzantine Missions Among the Slavs: SS. Constantine-Cyril and Methodius . (Rutgers Byzantine Series.) New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1970. Pp. xviii, 484; 23 illustrations. $17.50. (1972) (0)
- The Varangians of Byzantium. Sigfús Blöndal (1981) (0)
- The Empress Theodora: Partner of Justinian. By James Allan Evans. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. Pp. xvi + 146 + 9 figs. + 2 maps. $29.95. (2005) (0)
- Nicétas Magistros. Lettres d'un exilé (928–946). Edited and translated with an introduction and notes by L. G. Westerink. (Le monde byzantin.) Paris: Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. 1973. Pp. 154. 53.50 fr (1975) (0)
- Church and Society in the Last Centuries of Byzantium . By Donald M. Nicol. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. x + 162 pp. $19.95. (1980) (0)
- Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests: Author and date of the anti-jewish treatise (1992) (0)
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