Marlia Mango
Marlia Mundell Mango is a Byzantine archaeologist and historian at the University of Oxford, where she was University Lecturer in Byzantine Archaeology and Art (1995–2008).[1]
Biography
[edit]Mango graduated with a BA from Newton College, Massachusetts in 1964.[1] Subsequently, Mango was a curator and archaeologist at the research library of Dumbarton Oaks.
In 1985, Mango was awarded a DPhil from the University of Oxford on the subject of 'Artistic patronage in the Roman diocese of Oriens, 313–641 AD’, supervised by Martin Harrison.[1]
Mango is currently the Director of Excavations for the Byzantine site of Androna in modern Syria, and an emeritus research fellow at St John's College, Oxford.[2]
Her husband was Cyril Mango and she worked with him on St Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai.[3][4]
Honours
[edit]Mango's 1986 monograph Silver from Early Byzantium. The Kaper Koraon and Related Treasures was awarded the Prix Gustave Schlumberger (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Institut de France).[1] In 1999, Mango was awarded the Frend Medal by the Society of Antiquaries of London.[5] In 2017, a festchrift was published in honour of Mango, entitled Discipuli dona ferentes: Glimpses of Byzantium in Honour of Marlia Mundell Mango, containing contributions on Byzantine art and archaeology.[1]
Works
[edit]- The churches and monasteries of the Ṭur ʻAbdin (1982)
- Silver from early Byzantium (1986)
- The Sevso Treasure (1994)
- Byzantine trade, 4th–12th centuries (2004)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e DISCIPULI DONA FERENTES : glimpses of byzantium in honour of marlia. [S.l.]: BREPOLS PUBLISHERS. 2017. ISBN 9782503575858. OCLC 993760610.
- ^ "Dr Marlia Mango".
- ^ Anna Bonnell-Freidin (1 August 2009), Cyril Mango and Marlia Mundell Mango, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
- ^ Marlia Mango – School of Archaeology, University of Oxford
- ^ "About the Fellowship".
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