Books by Judith Herrin
Professor Judith Herrin is Emeritus Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at King’s College London. She is also a winner of the Heineken Prize for History 2016.
“In a sense, it’s quite an easy task writing a glittering book about Ravenna, because if you just go there, you see these relics of an astonishing culture. But Judith Herrin is absolutely the master of Byzantine Imperial history and late Roman Imperial history. She is someone who knows the whole context—it’s, of course, not just a book about a marshland town in Northern Italy.” Read more...
The Best History Books: The 2021 Wolfson Prize Shortlist
Diarmaid MacCulloch, Theologians & Historians of Religion
Byzantium
by Judith Herrin
The Byzantine empresses really associated themselves with the cult of Mary. Here you have flesh and blood women associating themselves with the divine
Interviews with Judith Herrin
The best books on Byzantium, recommended by Judith Herrin
Byzantine scholar Judith Herrin, professor emerita at King’s College London, selects five books to help us understand the place of Byzantium in world civilisation.
Interviews where books by Judith Herrin were recommended
The best books on Divine Women, recommended by Bettany Hughes
Ancient history was a man’s world – but women were considered closer to the gods. The historian and TV presenter Bettany Hughes reveals the secrets of Athenian priestesses, Byzantine empresses and Stone Age fertility goddesses.
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Survivors: Children’s Lives after the Holocaust
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Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
by Sudhir Hazareesingh -
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Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
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Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood
by Helen McCarthy -
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Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
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Atlantic Wars: From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution
by Geoffrey Plank
The Best History Books: The 2021 Wolfson Prize Shortlist, recommended by Diarmaid MacCulloch
The Best History Books: The 2021 Wolfson Prize Shortlist, recommended by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Every year the Wolfson History Prize seeks out books that combine careful research with good writing, aimed at the general reader. Here, Diarmaid MacCulloch, historian and chair of the judges, talks us through the outstanding history books that made the 2021 shortlist, and why, in his view, they’re all must-reads.
