Jonathan Shepard
British historian
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Jonathan Shepard FRHistS (born 1948) is a British historian specialising in early medieval Russia, the Caucasus, and the Byzantine Empire. He is regarded as a leading authority in Byzantine studies and on the Kievan Rus.[2] He specialises in diplomatic and archaeological history of the early Kievan period.[3] Shepard received his doctorate in 1973 from Oxford University and was a lecturer in Russian History at the University of Cambridge. Among other works, he is co-author (with Simon Franklin) of The Emergence of Rus, 750–1200 (1996), and editor of The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire (2008).
Jonathan Shepard | |
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| Born | 1948 (age 77–78) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | New College, Oxford |
| Thesis | Byzantium and Russia in the Eleventh Century: A Study in Political and Ecclesiastical Relations (1974[1]) |
| Doctoral advisor | Dimitri Obolensky |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Notable students | Peter Frankopan |
| Notable works | The Emergence of Rus, 750–1200 (with Simon Franklin) |
Among Shepard's theories is that the breakdown in Byzantine-Khazar relations and the shift in Byzantine foreign policy towards allying with the Pechenegs and the Rus against Khazaria was a result of the Khazar conversion to Judaism.
Selected bibliography
As author
- Shepard, Jonathan (1998) "The Khazars' Formal Adoption of Judaism and Byzantium's Northern Policy" in: Oxford Slavonic Papers; 1998
- Shepard, Jonathan (1997) "Byzantine Soldiers, Missionaries, and Diplomacy under Gibbon's Eyes" in Rosamund McKitterick and Roland Quinault, eds. Edward Gibbon and Empire, Cambridge: U. P., 1997
- Franklin, Simon; Shepard, Jonathan (1996) The Emergence of Rus, 750-1200. London and New York: Longman.
- Shepard, Jonathan (1992) "A Suspected Source of John Scylitzes' Synopsis Historion: the great Catacalon Cecaumenus" in: Byzantine and modern Greek studies.
- Shepard, Jonathan (1975–76) "Scylitzes on Armenia in the 1040s and the role of Catacalon Cecaumenus." Revue des Études Arméniennes, N.S. 11, pp. 269–311.
As editor
- Shepard, Jonathan, et al., eds. (2008). The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire. Cambridge University Press.
- Shepard, Jonathan; Franklin, Simon, eds. (1992) Byzantine Diplomacy: papers of the Twenty-fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Cambridge, March 1990. Aldershot; Brookfield, Vt.: Variorum.
