Dr Tim Greenwood
Dr Tim Greenwood

Dr Tim Greenwood

MA, DPhil (Oxon.) – Senior Lecturer

 
Contact Details

E-mail - twg3@st-andrews.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 463301
Fax - +44 (0)1334 463334

 

 

Teaching and Research Interests

My teaching interests extend across mediaeval Byzantium and the Near East (6th–11th centuries) with particular interest in the Caucasus and Sasanian Persia. My research is centred upon Armenian political, social and cultural history across the same period, analysing and exploiting literary, epigraphic and architectural sources. I am currently finishing a translation and commentary of an Armenian eleventh-century composition, the Tiezerakan Patmut‘iwn or Universal History by Step'anos Taronec'i. Future projects include a database of mediaeval Armenian inscriptions and a reappraisal of the Arab conquest of Armenia.

Main Publications

  • 'Armenia', in The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity, ed. S.F. Johnson (Oxford and New York, 2012) ,115-141
  • 'A Reassessment of the History of Łewond', Le Muséon 125 1-2 (2012), 99-167
  • 'A Reassessment of the Life and Mathematical Problems of Anania Širakac'i', Revue des études arméniennes 33 (2011), 131-186
  • ‘The Emergence of the Bagratuni Kingdoms of Kars and Ani’, in Armenian Kars and Ani, ed. R. Hovannisian, UCLA Armenian History and Culture Series. Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces 10 (Costa Meza CA, 2011), 43-64
  • 'Patterns of Contact and Communication: Constantinople and Armenia 860-976', in Armenian Constantinople, UCLA Armenian History and Culture Series, Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces 9, ed. R. Hovannisian and S. Payaslian (Costa Meza CA, 2010), 73-100
  • Entry on 'T'ovma Artsruni', in Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History vol. 2 (900-1050), ed. D. Thomas and A. Mallett, (Leiden, 2010), 102-107 CLICK HERE
  • Entries on ‘The History of Sebeos’, ‘The Letter of Leo III in Ghewond’, ‘Movsēs Daskhurants‘i’ and ‘Ghewond’, in Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History vol. 1 (600-900), ed. D Thomas and B. Roggema, (Leiden, 2009), 139-44, 203-8, 261-67 and 866-71
  • 'Armenian neighbours (600-1045)', in The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire, ed. J. Shepard (Cambridge, 2008), 333-364 CLICK HERE
  • 'Sasanian Reflections in Armenian Sources', e-Sasanika 5 (2008), at     http://www.humanities.uci.edu/sasanika/pdf/e-sasanika5-Greenwood.pdf
  • '"New Light from the East": Chronography and Ecclesiastical History through a late Seventh-Century Armenian Source', Journal of  Early Christian Studies 16.2 (2008), 197-254, at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_early_christian_studies/v016/16.2.greenwood.pdf
  • 'Armenian Sources', Byzantines and Crusaders in non-Greek Sources 1025-1204, ed. Mary Whitby, [Proceedings of the British Academy 132] (Oxford, 2007), 221-252.
  • ‘The Armenian Presence in Edessa after the Muslim Conquest’ in Armenian Tigranakert/Diarbekir and Edessa/Urfa, UCLA Armenian History and Culture Series; Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces 6, ed. R. Hovannisian, (Costa Meza CA, 2006), 137-152
  • ‘The discovery of the relics of St Grigor and the development of Armenian tradition in ninth-century Byzantium’, in Byzantine Style Religion and Civilization In Honour of Sir Steven Runciman, ed. E. Jeffreys, (Cambridge University Press, 2006), 177-191
  • ‘Failure of a Mission? Photius and the Armenian Church’, Le Muséon 119 1-2 (2006), 123-167
  • with Edda Vardanyan, Hakob's Gospels: The Life And Work of an Armenian Artist of the Sixteenth Century, (London, 2006) [Details]
  • ‘A Corpus of Early Medieval Armenian Inscriptions’, Dumbarton Oaks Papers 58 (2004), 27-91, at http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/3591380.pdf
  • ‘An Unpublished Seventeenth-Century Armenian Psalter, a Constantinopolitan Scriptorium and Markos Patkerahan’, Revue des études arméniennes 29 (2003-2004), 323-382
  •  ‘Sasanian Echoes and Apocalyptic Expectations: A Re-evaluation of the Armenian History attributed to Sebeos’, Le Muséon 115 3-4 (2002), 323-397
  • ‘Teaching Armenia’, at http://hca.ltsn.ac.uk/resources/overnight_expert/Teaching-Armenia.pdf

Administrative Duties

Deputy Director of the Institute of Iranian Studies
Sub-Honours adviser
Chair of Mediaeval History Degree Committee

Teaching Duties

Participates in the teaching of First Mediaeval History and offers the following Honours courses:

Research Students

I am interested in supervising research on Armenian, Byzantine and Sasanian history and historiography.

Current Research Students

  • Berenike Walburg: The Persian Gateway: Near Eastern International Trade in an Age of Transition
  • James Carey: The process of Sasanian diplomacy
  • David Bagot: Being Noble - Elite society, culture and identity in the Sasanian Empire
  • Elisabeth Mincin: Curing the Common Soul: Rethinking Byzantine heresy with particular focus on literary motifs (10th-12th century)

 

 

Main Publications

Hakobs Gospels