Paul Magdalino

Paul Magdalino FBA (born 10 May 1948) is a British Byzantinist who is Bishop Wardlaw Professor (Emeritus) of Byzantine History at the University of St Andrews.

He received the 1993 Runciman Award for his monograph on the reign of Manuel I Komnenos (1143–1180), which challenged Niketas Choniates' negative appraisal of the ruler.

[2][4] He is a fellow of the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in Early Christian Humanism, Catholic University of America, the Alexander-von-Humboldt Stipendium at Frankfurt and Munich, and the Humanities Research Centre at Australian National University.

[4] He was a visiting professor of history at Harvard University in 1995–1996 and a Senior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks in 2001–2007.

[5] Magdalino is a member of several editorial boards and research committees: 'The Medieval Mediterranean' at Brill monograph series; 'Oxford Studies in Byzantium' at Oxford University Press; Committee for the British Academy project on the Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire; Senior Fellows Committee at Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies; La Pomme d’Or Publishing; Byzantinische Zeitschrift journal.

Paul Magdalino with his first wife, Ruth Macrides , at the 1992 Byzantine Studies Symposium in Dumbarton Oaks