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Elizabeth Jeffreys FAHA (born 22 July 1941) was Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature,
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, and Fellow of
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, 1996–2006. She is now
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, and Emeritus Fellow of Exeter College.


Career

Elizabeth Jeffreys was educated at
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and
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. Later in her career she gained a Bachelor of Letters (BLitt) degree from St Anne's College, Oxford. Jeffreys taught at
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(now closed), London, 1965–69, then became senior resident fellow at the Warburg Institute, University of London, 1969–72. She was a visiting fellow at the
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Center for Byzantine Studies, 1972–74, then resident fellow at the University of Ioannina, 1974–76. She then moved to Australia as lecturer at universities in Sydney, Australia, 1976–86; Resident Fellow,
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, 1987–89; and resident fellow then senior resident fellow,
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, 1990–95, before returning to Oxford as fellow and professor. After retiring she held a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship 2008–09. Jeffreys is a Fellow of the
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and honorary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford.


Publications

* ''Byzantine Papers'', proceedings of the First Australian Byzantine Studies Conference, Canberra, May 1978 (ed. with Michael Jeffreys and Ann Moffatt), Australian National University, 1981. * ''Popular literature in late Byzantium: collected papers'' (with Michael Jeffreys), Variorum Reprints, 1983. * ''The Chronicle of John Malalas'' (tr. with Michael Jeffreys and Roger Scott), Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, 1986. * ''Studies in John Malalas'' (ed. with Brian Croke and Roger Scott), Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, 1990. * ''Ho Polemos tes Troados'' (The War of Troy) (with Manolis Papathomopoulos), National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation, 1996; * ''Digenis Akritis: the Grottaferrata and Escorial versions'' (ed. and tr.),
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, 1998. * ''Through the looking glass: Byzantium through British eyes'', papers from the twenty-ninth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, London, March 1995 (ed. with Robin Cormack), Ashgate, 2000. * ''Rhetoric in Byzantium'', papers from the thirty-fifth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Exeter College, Oxford, March 2001 (ed.), Ashgate, 2003. * ''Byzantine style, religion, and civilisation: in honour of Sir Steven Runciman'', Cambridge University Press, 2006. * ''The age of the dromon: the Byzantine navy ca. 500–1204'', with John Pryor (appendix translated by Ahmad Shboul),
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, 2006. *''Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies'', with Robin Cormack and John Haldon,
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, 2008. * ''Iacobi Monachi Epistulae'' (Letters of the monk Jacob), Brepols, 2009. * ''Four Byzantine novels'' (translated from the Ancient Greek),
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, 2012.


References


JEFFREYS, Prof. Elizabeth Mary
Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011. Retrieved 9 February 2012
Prof Elizabeth Jeffreys
Debrett's People Online
Professor E.M. Jeffreys
Oxford University Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages (retired postholders)
Elizabeth Jeffreys
, Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity
Jeffreys, Elizabeth, FAHA
Australian Academy of the Humanities


External links


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