Professor Lynda Garland
Head of School, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, School of Humanities
Qualifications
DPhil (Oxon) Conventions of Love and Marriage in Late Byzantine Literature; MA (Oxon); Cert Ed. (Exe); First Class Honours, (School of Classics & Modern Languages: Literae Humaniores, Ancient History, & Medieval Greek: Somerville College, University of Oxford)
Contact
| Email: | ldillon@une.edu.au |
| Room: | E11 G43 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2794 (or +61 2 6773 2794 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3520 |
Affiliations
Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC, 1997–1998
Praeses editorum Byzantinorum Byzantinarumque (ie, Byzantine itor in chief) of the peer-reviewed internet site, De imperatoribus Romanis: Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors (http://www.roman-emperors.org), 1999—
President of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies home.vicnet.net.au/~byzaus/, 2005—
Positions Held
2008: Head, School of Humanities
2007–2008: Transitional Head, School of Humanities
2007— Discipline Convenor (Studies in Religion), School of Humanities
2006—2007: Associate Dean (Teaching & Learning), Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, UNE.
2005: Discipline Convenor (Studies in Religion), School of Classics, History & Religion.
2005—: Chair, Editorial Committee of Byzantina Australiensia, Australian Association for Byzantine Studies.
2003: Member of the Executive Committee, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, UNE.
1999–2007: Discipline Convenor (Ancient Literature in Translation), School of Classics, History & Religion/ School of Humanities
1999–: Editorial Chair (Praeses, Editorum Byzantinarum Byzantinorumque), De imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors (peer-reviewed website based at Salve Regina University), www.roman-emperors.org/.
1994–2005: Member, Editorial Committee of Byzantina Australiensia, Australian Association for Byzantine Studies
1994–2005: Treasurer, Australian Association for Byzantine Studies.
1991–1994: Member, HSC (NSW) Examination Committee (Ancient History).
1981–1990: Member, HSC (NSW) Syllabus Committee (Modern Greek).
1984–1987: Chair, HSC (NSW) Examination Committee (Modern Greek).
1981–1987: Member, HSC (NSW) Examination Committee (Modern Greek).
Areas of Teaching
Teaching interest
Byzantine History, the Crusades, Ancient Near Eastern Religions, Early Christianity, Greek, Egyptian and Roman history, Bronze Age Greece and the Aegean, Ancient Literature in Translation.
Units Co-ordinated since 2005
- ALIT 321 Greek and Roman Epic Poetry
- ALIT 323 Classical Prose Literature
- ANCH 110 Introduction to Greek History
- ANCH 111 Introduction to Roman History
- ANCH 322/422 Bronze Age Greece and the Aegean
- HIST 181 Introduction to World Religions A
- HIST 182 Introduction to World Religions B
- HIST 305/405 Byzantine History AD330-1056
- HIST 308/408 The Crusades
- HIST 384/484 Religions of the Ancient Near East
- HIST 385/485 Women and Religion
- HIST 387/487 Earliest Christianity: Social Context and Sacred Text
- HIST 488 The Pagan Religions of Greece and Rome
Units Taught 2009–2012
2009:
HIST 305/505 Byzantine History
HIST 384/584 Religions of the Ancient Near East
ANCH/HIST Honours (401H) 50%
HIST 513: Empires, Conflict and Conquest (team-taught) - Unit commendation
2010:
ANCH 110 Introduction to Greek History
ANCH 322/522 Bronze Age Greece and the Aegean
HIST308/508 The Crusades - Unit commendation
CLLA101 and 102 (Greek), 201, 202, 301, 302, 303 (Greek and Latin)
2011:
HIST305/505 Byzantine History - Unit commendation
RELS384/584 Religions of the Ancient Near East - Unit commendation
ANCH326/526 Art and Architecture of the Ancient World: 50% - Unit commendation
2012:
ANCH 110 Introduction to Greek History
HIST308/508 The Crusades
ANCH 325/525 New Kingdom Egypt
Teaching Awards
Vice-Chancellors Award for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, UNE 2007.
Carrick Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (‘For sustained excellence in scholarly activities and curriculum development which has enhanced the teaching and learning of first-year Ancient History both at the University of New England and internationally’: with Matthew Dillon) 2007.
Recent PhD Supervision
Anna M. Silvas, PhD, Two Versions of St Basil’s Asketikon and the Emergence of Monasticism in Fourth-century Anatolia (2000).
Timothy G. Dawson, PhD, The Forms and Evolution of the Dress and Regalia of the Byzantine court, c. 900–c. 1400 (2003).
Toni Tidswell, PhD, Women in the Qur’an and Hebrew Scriptures; the development of text, story and character (2005).
Current areas of HDR supervision
The Gospel of Thomas
Heresy and the Theodosian Code
Norman-Byzantine Relations in the eleventh and twelfth centuries
Byzantine Imperial Women in the Sixth Century
Research interests
Byzantine Social and Political History, the Crusades, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Women and Religion
Recent and Ongoing Research Projects
Byzantine humour and its social context, AD 527–1453
Zoe, Purple-Born Empress of Byzantium
The Role of Women and Eunuchs at the Court of the Macedonian Dynasty
Publications
Refereed Publications
Books:
Dillon, M.P.J. & Garland, L. Ancient Greece. Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Socrates (c. 800–399 BC), Routledge: London & New York, 1994.
Garland, L. (ed.) Conformity and Non-Conformity in Byzantium, Adolf M. Hakkert: Amsterdam (= Byzantinische Forschungen 24), 1997.
Garland, L. Byzantine Empresses. Women and Power in Byzantium, AD 527–1204, Routledge: London & New York, 1999.
Dillon, M.P.J. & Garland, L. Ancient Greece. Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Socrates (c. 800–399 BC), Routledge: London & New York, second edition, 2000.
Dillon, M.P.J. & Garland, L. Ancient Rome: from the Early Republic to the Assassination of Julius Caesar, Routledge, London & New York, 2006.
Garland, L. (ed.), Byzantine Women AD 800–1200: Varieties of Experience, Ashgate: King’s College Series, London, 2006.
Dillon, M.P.J. & Garland, L. Ancient Greece. Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander the Great (c. 800–323 BC), Routledge: London & New York, revised and expanded edition, 2010.
Dillon, M.P.J. & Garland, L. Ancient Greece. Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander the Great (c. 800–323 BC), Routledge: London & New York (ISBN hdbk:0 415 47329 2, pbk:0 415 47330 6; 601 pp. +xxii) 50%, 2010.
Nathan, G. & Garland, L. (eds) Basileia: Essays on Imperium and Culture in Honour of E.M. and M.J. Jeffreys, Byzantina Australiensia: Brisbane, 2011.
Byzantine Empresses (Routledge, 1999) released in paperback January 2011 and translated into Roumanian (1500 print run)
Dillon, M.P.J. & Garland, L. The Ancient Greeks: A Political and Social History from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander, Routledge: London & New York, 2012.
Forthcoming:
Dillon, M.P.J. & Garland, L. The Ancient Greeks: A Political and Social History from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander, Routledge: London & New York, June 2012, 640pp. 50%, 2012.
Garland L. & Neil B. (eds) Questions of Gender in Byzantine Society, Ashgate, London, 2012.
Garland L. ‘Till Death do us Part? Family Life in Byzantine Monasteries’, in Questions of Gender in Byzantine Society, Ashgate, London, 2012.
“Theodora,”
“Zenobia”
“Imperial family, women of the”
“Women, Byzantium” in
The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History, ed. R. Bagnall et al, 2012.
Garland, L. “Power”, in A Cultural History of Women in Antiquity (500BCE–1000CE), Palgrave Macmillan, 10,000 words, 2012.
Book chapters
“Conformity and Licence at the Byzantine Court in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries,” in Bosporos: City, Court and Countryside, Adolf M. Hakkert: Amsterdam (= Byzantinische Forschungen, 21), 101–115, 1995.
“Morality versus Politics at the Byzantine Court: the Charges against Marie of Antioch and Euphrosyne,” in L. Garland (ed.), Conformity and Non-Conformity in Byzantium (Adolf M. Hakkert: Amsterdam (= Byzantinische Forschungen, 24)), 259–295, 1997.
“The rhetoric of gluttony and hunger in twelfth-century Byzantium,” Feast, Fast or Famine. Food and Drink in Byzantium, ed. W. Mayer and S. Trzcionka, Byzantina Australiensia: Brisbane, 43–56, 2005.
with S. H. Rapp Jr. “Mary ‘of Alania’: Women and Empress Between Two Worlds,” in L. Garland, (ed.), Byzantine Women AD 800–1200: Varieties of Experience, Ashgate: King’s College Series, London, 91–124, 2006.
“Street-life in Constantinople: women and the carnivalesque,” in L. Garland, (ed.), Byzantine Women AD 800–1200: Varieties of Experience, Ashgate: King’s College Series, London, 163–176, 2006.
“Imperial Women and Entertainment at the Middle Byzantine Court,” in L. Garland, (ed.), Byzantine Women AD 800–1200: Varieties of Experience, Ashgate: King’s College Series, London, 177–191, 2006.
Garland, L. “Public Lavatories, Mosquito Nets And Agathias’s Cat: The Sixth-century Epigram In Its Justinianic Context”, in L. Garland and G. Nathan (eds) Basileia. Essays on Imperium and Culture in Honour of E.M. and M.J. Jeffreys, Byzantina Australiensia: Brisbane, 141–158, 2011.
Refereed Journal Articles
“The Life and Ideology of Byzantine Women: A Further Note on Conventions of Behaviour and Social Reality as Reflected in Eleventh and Twelfth Century Historical Sources,” Byzantion, 58, 361–393, 1988.
“The vergin triklonon of Belthandros and Chrysantza: a Note on a Popular Verse Romance and its Sources,” Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 82 (2), 87–95, 1989.
“Be Amorous But Be Chaste...: Sexual Morality in Byzantine Learned and Vernacular Romance,” Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 14, 62–120, 1990.
“And His Bald Head Shone Like a Full Moon...: An Appreciation of the Byzantine Sense of Humour as Recorded in Historical Sources of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries,” Parergon. Bulletin of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, ns 8, 1–31, 1990.
“The Sixteenth Century Cretan Drama The Sacrifice of Abraham, Translated from the Medieval Greek with an Introduction,” Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, 7, 365–416, 1991.
“Political Power and the Populace in Byzantium Prior to the Fourth Crusade,” Byzantinoslavica, 53 (fasc. 1), 17–52, 1992.
“The “Golden Age” of Crete” (review article on Literature and Society in Renaissance Crete, ed. David Holton (Cambridge: CUP, 1991)), Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, 8, 422–432, 1992.
“The Eye of the Beholder: Byzantine Imperial Women and their Public Image from Zoe Porphyrogenita to Euphrosyne Kamaterissa Doukaina (1028–1203). Part I,” Byzantion, 64 (1 & 2), 19–39 and 261–313, 1994.
“How Different, How Very Different from the Home Life of Our Own Dear Queen: Sexual Morality at the Late Byzantine Court, with Especial Reference to the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries,” Byzantine Studies / Études Byzantines (new series 1–2), 1–62, 1995–96 (1998).
“Social and Family Life at Court in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries: Imperial Women and their Priorities,” in Acts, 18th International Byzantine Congress, Selected Papers: Main and Communications, Moscow, 1991, ed. I. Sevcenko & G.G. Litavrin, Byzantine Studies/Études Byzantines, new series, vol. I, 184–195, 1996 (1998).
“The Fair Shepherdess: a Translation of He Evmorphe Voskopoula, with an Introduction,” Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, 12, 423–39, 1996/7 (1998).
“Byzantium’s Age of Chivalry: the Historical Context of Digenes Akrites and the Akritic Songs,” (review article on Digenes Akrites: New Approaches to Byzantine Heroic Poetry, ed. Roderick Beaton & David Ricks (King’s College London Publications 2: Variorum, 1993)), Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, 12/13, 573–89, 1996/7 (1998).
“Stephen Hagiochristophorites: logothete tou genikou 1182/83–1185,” Byzantion, 69 (1), 11–23, 1999.
“Basil II as Humorist,” Byzantion, 69 (1), 321–43, 1999.
“A Treasury Minister in Hell: a little-known ‘dialogue of the dead’ of the late twelfth century,” Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, 16/17, 423–41, 2000/2001 (2004).
“Byzantium,” in Women and Gender in Medieval Europe, ed. Margaret Schaus, Routledge: New York, 101–104, 2006
“Mazaris’ Journey to Hades: Reflections and Reappraisal,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 61, 297–348, 2007.
“West Asia: Roman and Byzantine Periods,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, ed. B.G. Smith, Oxford University Press, vol. 4 367-70, 2008.
“Leo IV (775-780 A.D.),” De Imperatoribus Romanis - An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors, (www.roman-emperors.org, 2002, 4,100 words).
“Constantine VI (780-797 A.D.) and Irene (797-802 A.D.)”, De Imperatoribus Romanis - An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors (www.roman-emperors.org, 2002, 10,200 words).
with A.F. Stone (UWA), “Bertha of Sulzbach, wife of Manuel I Comnenus,” in De Imperatoribus Romanis: An on-line encyclopedia of Roman Emperors (www.roman-emperors.org, 2005, 5,900 words).
with A.F. Stone, “Agnes-Anna of France, wife of Alexius II and Andronicus I Comnenus,” De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors (www.roman-emperors.org, 2005, 3,000 words).
with Stephen H. Rapp, Jr. (Georgia State University), “Mart’a-Maria of Alania,” De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors (www.roman-emperors.org, 2005,10,700 words).
with A.F. Stone, “Maria of Antioch, wife of Manuel I Comnenus,” De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors (www.roman-emperors.org, 2005, 7,600 words).
with A.F. Stone, “Maria Porphyrogenita, daughter of Manuel I Comnenus,” De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors (www.roman-emperors.org, 2005, 5,000 words).
“Zoe Porphyrogenita (wife of Romanus III, Constantine IX, and Michael IV),” De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors (www.roman-emperors.org, 2006, 12,000 words).
with Catherine Holmes (Oxford University), “Theophano, wife of Romanus II and Nicephorus II Phocas”, De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors (www.roman-emperors.org, 2006, 12,000 words).
with Shaun Tougher (Cardiff University), “Eudocia Ingerina, wife of Basil I the Macedonian”, De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors (www.roman-emperors.org, 2007, 8,000 words).
“Anna Dalassena (mother of Alexius I Comnenus),” De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors (www.roman-emperors.org, 2007, 11,400 words).
Encyclopedia Entry
Garland, L., “Byzantium”, in Christianity: The Illustrated Guide to 2,000 Years of the Christian Faith, Millennium House, Sydney, 2009, 120–137:
“Constantinople”, “The Reign of Justinian”, “Hagia Sophia”, “Theological Emphases”, “Liturgy and Prayer”, “Eastern Monasticism”, “Official Founding of Mt. Athos under Imperial Auspices in 963”, “Northward Spread of Eastern Christianity (Slavs, Serbs, Bulgars;)”, “Prince Vladimir of Kiev and the Christianisation of Russia, 988”.