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Averil cameron patristic studies and the emergence of islam
Dame Averil Millicent Cameron, DBE, FBA, FSA, FRHistS (born 8 February 1940), often cited as A. M. Cameron, is professor emerita of Late Antique and Byzantine History at the University of Oxford, and was formerly the Warden of Keble College, Oxford, between 1994 and 2010.
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- Averil cameron patristic studies and the emergence of islam
- Apocalyptic ideas and the emergence of islam prof dame averil cameron
- Early life
- Career
- Honours
- Work
- References
Apocalyptic ideas and the emergence of islam prof dame averil cameron
Early life
Cameron was born in Leek, Staffordshire, the only child of working class parents. She read Literae Humaniores at Somerville College, Oxford and was married to Alan Cameron, with whom she has a son and a daughter.
Career
From 1978-94 Cameron taught at King's College London, serving as Professor of Ancient History (1978-89), Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (1989–94), and Founding Director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies. In 1994 she was appointed Warden of Keble College, Oxford, where she served as Chair of the Conference of Colleges and as Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Chair of the Committee on the Sackler Library and the Advisory Committee on Honorary Degrees and sat on committees for Conflict of Interest, Select Preachers, the Bampton Lectures and the Wainwright Fund. She has served as Chair of a number of academic institutions, including the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research, the Institute of Classical Studies Advisory Council, the Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England (1999–2005), and of the Prosopography of the Byzantine World.
Cameron has also acted as the President of multiple society including: The Ecclesiastical History Society (2005–06); Council for British Research in the Levant; The Fédération internationale des associations d'études classiques (2009–2014);
Honours
Cameron holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Warwick, St Andrews, Aberdeen, Lund, the Queen's University of Belfast and London.
Cameron is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, the British Academy, the Ecclesiastical History Society (from 2001), King's College London, the Royal Historical Society, and the Institute of Classical Studies, London.
In 2007 a Festschrift edited by Hagit Amirav and Bas ter Haar Romeny, From Rome to Constantinople: Studies in Honour of Averil Cameron (Leuven: Peeters), was published in Cameron's honour.
Work
Cameron's early articles explored early Byzantine and early Medieval Latin writers such as Corippus, Procopius, and Gregory of Tours from literary and historical perspectives. Her early monographs, Agathias (1970) and Procopius and the Sixth Century (1985) were accompanied by a number of influential edited collections, including Images of Women in Antiquity, edited jointly with Amélie Kuhrt (1983), and History as Text (1989). With Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire: The Development of Christian Discourse (1990), Cameron sparked a scholarly conversation about 'the power of discourse in society' in later antiquity, seeking to understand 'how Christianity was able to develop a "totalizing discourse" ' (the phrase itself is borrowed from the work of Michel Foucault).
Cameron's mature scholarship has included substantial surveys such as The Later Roman Empire, AD 284-430 (1993) and significant editorial commissions, including joint editorship of volumes 12, 13, and 14 of the Cambridge Ancient History (second edition) along with a number of influential studies on dialogue and debate in Byzantium from the early Christian period to the twelfth century.