Bio

Peter Frankopan

Director, Centre for Byzantine Research, Oxford University Author, The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan (Bloomsbury)

Age: 44

Education

Eton College 1984-89 (Music scholar and also winner of the Duke of Newcastle Russian Prize).

BA in modern history, Jesus College, Cambridge, 1993 (Schiff Foundation Scholar and history prize for the highest first class degree)

M Phil in Byzantine studies, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, 1995

D Phil in Byzantine History, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, 1998

Career

Summer fellow, Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University, 1996

Junior research fellow, Worcester College, Oxford, 1997-2000

Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Fellow in Hellenic Studies Princeton 2002-03

Senior research fellow, Worcester College, Oxford, 2000-present

Director, Centre for Byzantine Research, Oxford University, 2010-present

Book, The Alexiad by Anna Komnene "A 12th century Greek text explaining the changing world of the Middle Ages and the conflict between Christianity and Islam."

Film, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989, dir. by Steve Spielberg). "I have a soft spot for Indiana Jones films - an academic having adventures around the world rings a bell."

Music, Grieg's piano works performed by Ivana Gavri. "Ivana is a good friend and is rightly becoming a major artist."

Food, Vietnamese. "I spent some time in Southeast Asia this year to look at the spread of Hinduism and Buddhism in the Middle Ages, and got hooked on the street food of Hanoi."

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