Leonora Neville 

Associate Professor of History

Associate Director,

Center for the Study of Early Christianity

Contact: nevillel@cua.edu

Ph.D., 1998, Princeton University

Social and Cultural history of the Byzantine Empire, 800-1250 CE

Early Medieval history of the Eastern Mediterranean, 500-800 CE

Office Hours, Spring 2007: Thursday 2-4, or by appointment

Sample publications:

Book:

• Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society: 950-1100, Cambridge University Press, 2004 

Articles:

• "A history of Caesar John Doukas in Nikephoros Bryennios’ Material for History?" Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, forthcoming
• "Taxing Sophronia's Son-in-Law: Evidence of the Prominence of Women from Fiscal Records" in Byzantine Women: Varieties of Experience, CE 800-1200, ed. Lynda Garland, Ashgate Press 2006
• "Information, Ceremony and Power in Byzantine Fiscal Registers: Varieties of function in the Cadaster of Thebes" Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 25 (2001)
• Leonora Neville, "The Marcian Treatise on Taxation and the Nature of Bureaucracy in Byzantium", Byzantinische Forschungen Vol. 26 (2000), pp. 46-62.

Courses Taught

• History 101: World History to 1600
• History 311: The Crusades
• History 309: The Rise of Islam
• History 308: History of the Byzantine Empire
• History 401: Senior Thesis
• History 603: Historical Teaching Methods
• History 605: The Seventh Century Transformation of Byzantium
• History 621: Byzantine Ethics
• History 615: Eastern Perspectives on the Crusades
• History 809: Crusaders and Colonies
• History 841: Byzantium and the West

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