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Meredith L. Riedel, Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity and Graduate Program in Religion

Meredith L. Riedel

Please note: Meredith has left the "Graduate Program in Religion" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Dr. Riedel is the author of Leo VI and the Transformation of Byzantine Christian Identity: Writings of an Unexpected Emperor  (Cambridge, 2018).
Dr. Riedel’s research interests focus on the nexus of war, politics, and religion in the early medieval Byzantine oikoumene, with particular interest in how Orthodox Christianity interacted with Islam, Latin Christianity, Judaism, and other indigenous faith traditions of the Mediterranean world. She studies military and diplomatic interactions between Christendom and Islam and is particularly interested in Byzantine cultural attitudes and beliefs in the centuries leading up to the Crusades. Her first book presents a new analysis of the design and purpose of the Byzantine Emperor Leo VI’s military manual, the Taktika, as well as his legislative and homiletic writings, showing his use of biblical allusions and language to articulate a collective Christian political identity. Her second book, on the interaction of Christianity and Islam (7th-13th centuries) is currently in progress.

Dr. Riedel is an ordained Ruling Elder at Triangle Grace Church (ECO) in Durham. 

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Web Page:  http://mldriedel.com/
Division:  Divinity Faculty

Education:

D.Phil.University of Oxford (UK)2010
Keywords:

Byzantine Empire--History • Christianity • Theology

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Riedel, MLD, Leo VI and the Transformation of Byzantine Christian Identity Writings of an Unexpected Emperor (August, 2018), pp. 240 pages, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, ISBN 1107053072 [DA5404349A8860C769D69E4329BA69F7], [doi]  [abs]
  2. Riedel, MLD, Demonic Prophecy as Byzantine Imperial Propaganda: The rhetorical appeal of the tenth-century Narratio de Imagine Edessena, Fides Et Historia, vol. 49.1 (2017) no. 1 (2017), pp. 11-23  [abs]
  3. Riedel, MLD, Biblical echoes in two byzantine military speeches, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, vol. 40 no. 2 (October, 2016), pp. 207-222, Cambridge University Press, ISSN 0307-0131 [doi]  [abs]
  4. Riedel, MLD, ‘Nikephoros II Phokas and Orthodox Military Martyrdom’, Journal of Religious Medieval Cultures, vol. 41 no. 2 (2015), pp. 121-147  [abs]
  5. Riedel, MLD, Syriac sources for Byzantinists: an introduction and overview, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, vol. 105 no. 2 (January, 2012), pp. 775-802, WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH, ISSN 0007-7704 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]


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