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Double portrait of Theodorus Comnenus Ducas Syndenus, son of the foundress, and his wife Eudocia Ducaena Comnena Synadena Palaiologina. From the Typikon of the Monastery of Our Lady of Good Hope. (Lincoln College Typikon; Lincoln College, Ms. Gr. 35, fol. 8r) (By permission of the Fellows of Lincoln College, Oxford)
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About Byzantine Studies at Oxford University
The opportunities for pursuing Byzantine Studies at Oxford are excellent. Oxford
was the first university in the United Kingdom to set up a Lecturership, then
a Chair of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature (in 1908). It
also has a Lecturership in Byzantine Studies, a Lecturership in Byzantine Archaeology
and Art, and a Lecturership in Eastern Orthodox Studies. The Faculty
of Classics (Literae Humaniores) is the largest department of classical
studies in the country and has an active interest in Late Antiquity and in Archaeology.
The Faculty of History, one of the bastions
of medieval studies, also has a long-standing commitment to Late Antiquity as
well as to East Mediterranean history. Oxford has a flourishing centre of Oriental
Studies, including Arabic, Syriac and Armenian.
In addition to human teaching resources, Oxford has enormous library
resources including one of the greatest collections of Greek, i.e. Byzantine
manuscripts in the world (there are over 1500 altogether in the Bodleian
and college libraries), and of papyri illustrating life in Egypt from the
4th century AD onwards. Books relevant to Byzantine studies are available
in the Bodleian Library, Sackler Library,
Taylorian
Institute, Oriental Institute, Pusey House, and the House of St Gregory
and St Macrina. There is an extensive study collection of Early Christian
and Byzantine objects (over 1,000 items) in the Ashmolean
Museum, a Byzantine coin collection in the Museum's Heberden Coin Room
and Late Roman and Byzantine archaeological archives in the Institute
of Archaeology.
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