Margaret Mullett

Margaret Elizabeth Mullett (OBE) (born 1946) is a British historian. She is a professor emerita of Byzantine studies at Queen's University Belfast, and is a former director of Byzantine studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C., the foremost centre for the study of Byzantium in North America. Mullett is a leading proponent of a more theoretical approach to Byzantine studies and Byzantine texts.

Education

Mullett read Medieval History and Medieval Latin at Birmingham University.^[1] She received her PhD from the Centre for Byzantine Studies, Birmingham University, in 1981. Her dissertation was entitled, Theophylact Through His Letters: the Two Worlds of an Exile Bishop.^[2]

Career

As Director at Dumbarton Oaks, Mullett was also the editor of Dumbarton Oaks Papers.^[3] Previous to her position at Dumbarton Oaks, she was a Professor of Byzantine Studies and Director of the Institute of Byzantine Studies at the Queen's University of Belfast and Director of the Queen's Gender Initiative.^[4][5] She is the author of Theophylact of Ochrid: Reading the Letters of a Byzantine Archbishop, Variorum, 1997.^[4] With Judith Herrin and Catherine Otten-Froux, she edited a Festschrift for A. H. S. Megaw, published in 2001 by the British School in Athens.^[6]

Mullett was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) at the Queen's Birthday Honours 2006.^[7][8]

Mullet's portrait is part of 'The Feast of Wisdom', a Byzantine style mural in Queen's University's former Institute of Byzantine Studies created by Colin McGookin.^[9] A portrait of Mullet was unveiled at Queen's University Belfast and will hang in the university's Great Hall, alongside other luminaries of the university.^[10]

Bibliography

• Knowing Bodies, Passionate Souls: Sense Perception in Byzantium (ed. by Susan Ashbrook Harvey and Margaret Mullett) (Washington, D.C): Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection, 2017)
• Mosaic: Festschrift for A.H.S Megaw, ed. by Judith Herrin, Margaret Mullett, and Catherine Otten-Froux (London: British School in Athens, 2001)
• Theophylact of Ochrid: Reading the Letters of a Byzantine Archbishop (Variorum, 1997)