Professor Paul Magdalino delivers the 28th Walton Lecture
The Gennadius Library organized the 28th Annual Walton Lecture in honor of past Gennadeion Director Francis Walton, on March 31, 2009. Professor of Byzantine History Paul Magdalino of the University of St Andrews presented a lecture titled “Byzantium as the New Israel”. Cotsen filled with interested Byzantinists and others who learned about the relationship between Byzantium and the idea of the Chosen People as well as the Old Testament from the 4th to the 13th centuries. Paul Magdalino (BA, DPhil [Oxon.] FBA) is Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Byzantine History at St Andrews University. His teaching and research interests are the society, culture and economy of the Byzantine world from the 6th to the 13th centuries. His special interests at present are the city of Constantinople, prophecy, astrology and religion, as well as the relations of Byzantium with Western Europe. He has written and edited numerous books, such as Studies on the History and Topography of Byzantine Constantinople (2007); The occult sciences in Byzantium (2006); Byzantium in the Year 1000 (2003); Byzantium and the modern Greek identity (1998); Constantinople mediévale: études sur l’évolution des structures urbaines (1996); The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143 – 1180 (1993); and Tradition and Transformation in Medieval Byzantium (1991).