Nicol, Donald MacGillivray

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NICOL, Donald MacGillivray

NICOL, Donald MacGillivray. British, b. 1923. Genres: History. Career: Emeritus Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, University of London (joined faculty, 1970). Director, The Gennadius Library, The American School of Classical Studies, Athens. Lecturer in Classics, University College, Dublin, 1952-64; Visiting Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., 1964-65; Visiting Professor of Byzantine History, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1965-66; Sr. Lecturer and Reader in Byzantine History, University of Edinburgh, 1966-70. Publications: The Despotate of Epiros, 1957; Meteora: The Rock Monasteries of Thessaly, 1963, 1975; The Byzantine Family of Kantakouzenos 1100-1460, 1968; The Last Centuries of Byzantium 1261-1453, 1972; Byzantium: Its Ecclesiastical History and Relations with the Western World, 1972; Church and Society in the Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1979; The End of the Byzantine Empire, 1979; The Despotate of Epiros 1267-1479: A Contribution to the History of Greece in the Middle Ages, 1984; Studies in Late Byzantine History and Prosopography, 1986; Byzantium and Venice: A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural Relations, 1988; A Biographical Dictionary of the Byzantine Empire, 1991. Died 2003.