Transitions. A Historian?s Memoir

Summary The transitions of the title are those in the life and intellectual development of one of the leading historians of late antiquity and Byzantium. Averil Cameron recounts her working-class origins in North Staffordshire and how she came to read Classics at Oxford and start her research at Glasgow University before moving to London and teaching at King's College London. Later she was the head of Keble College Oxford at a time of change in the University and its colleges. She played a leading role in projects and organisations even as the flow of books and articles continued, in an array of publications that have been fundamental in shaping the disciplines of late antiquity and Byzantine studies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Part 1. Beginnings 1. Leek 2. Somerville 3. More Oxford 4. Alan Cameron Part 2. The Academic 5. Glasgow 6. London 7. Columbia University, New York, 1967-68 8. Life in the 1970s 9. From the Roman Empire to Late Antiquity 10. Princeton, 1977-78 11. King's College London, 1980s to 1990s 12. Berkeley, Patristics and Paris 13. Byzantium and the Centre for Hellenic Studies 14. Writing and Academic Visits 15. From King's College to Oxford Part 3. Oxford and Keble College 16. A New Kind of Life: The Move to Keble 17. Keble and Its Chapel 18. The Move to Keble II 19. Change at Oxford 20. Heads of House 21. Fundraising and Finance 22. Keble Treasures 23. Oxford Roles Part 4. Wider Horizons 24. Outside Oxford 25. Middle Eastern Travel 26. The Book Not Written 27. Pandemic Experience 28. Epilogue Bibliography