William Miller
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Born
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1864-12-08
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8 December 1864
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Died
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(1945-10-23)
(aged 80)
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Occupation
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William Miller
,
FBA
(8 December 1864 ? 23 October 1945) was a British-born
medievalist
and journalist.
Biography
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The son of a
Cumberland
mine owner, Miller was educated at
Rugby School
and
Oxford
, where he gained a double first, and was
called to the bar
in 1889, but never practised law.
He married Ada Mary Wright in 1895,
and in 1896 published
The Balkans
, followed in 1898 by
Travels and Politics in the Near East
.
[2]
In 1903 he and his wife left England for
Italy
, and despite an effort by
Ronald Burrows
to recruit Miller as the first incumbent of the Chair of
Modern Greek
and
Byzantine History
, Language, and Literature at
London University
, he and his wife spent the rest of their lives abroad. They lived in
Rome
(at
Via Palestro
36) until 1923, when Miller found
Benito Mussolini
's
rise to power
distasteful, and they moved to
Athens
.
There he was associated with the
British School at Athens
until the
German invasion of Greece
in 1941. During his time in Rome and Athens, Miller also served as correspondent of the
Morning Post
.
[2]
Together the couple lived in the Ocean View Hotel in
Durban
,
South Africa
, for the rest of their lives. Miller died there in 1945, while Ada Mary surviving him by five years. They had no children.
Miller was a
fellow of the British Academy
and foreign
corresponding member
of
Academy of Athens
.
[2]
Works
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Miller was particularly interested in the
Frankish period
of Greek history, covering the
Crusader principalities
established on Greek soil following the
Fourth Crusade
. He was among the most eminent scholars of the field in the early 20th century, and produced a number of "landmark" studies.
Although his work displays a "romantic view of the Crusades and the Frankish expansion into the Eastern Mediterranean" typical of 19th-century Western trends on the subject,
and is considered "clearly outdated" given the research produced in recent decades, it has had a major influence and remains widely used to this day.
Particularly the 1908
The Latins in the Levant
has "remained for decades the standard English-language narrative account of the period",
and is "still the main reference for undergraduates in search of information on medieval Greece".
Its influence has also been felt in Greece, where already in 1909?1910 the Greek scholar
Spyridon Lambros
issued an expanded Greek translation of the work.
Selected bibliography
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- The Balkans: Roumania, Bulgaria, Servia, and Montenegro
. New York and London:
G. P. Putnam's Sons
and
T. Fisher Unwin
. 1896
. Retrieved
19 September
2018
– via Internet Archive.
- Travels and Politics in the Near East
. London: T. Fisher Unwin. 1898
. Retrieved
19 September
2018
– via Internet Archive.
- Mediaeval Rome, from Hildebrand to Clement VIII, 1073?1600
. Story of the nations. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1902.
ISBN
978-07-90-56244-5
.
- Greek Life in Town and Country
. London:
George Newnes, Limited
. 1905
. Retrieved
19 September
2018
– via Internet Archive.
- The Latins in the Levant
. London:
John Murray
. 1908
. Retrieved
19 September
2018
– via Internet Archive.
- The Ottoman Empire and its Successors, 1801-1922
(2nd ed.). Cambridge:
At the University Press
. 1923
. Retrieved
19 September
2018
– via Internet Archive.
,
(4th ed), 1936
- Essays on the Latin Orient
. Cambridge: At the University Press. 1921
. Retrieved
19 September
2018
– via Internet Archive.
- History of the Greek People (1821-1921); with an Introduction by G. P. Gooch
. London:
Methuen and Co. Ltd.
1922
. Retrieved
19 September
2018
– via Internet Archive.
- Miller, William (1920). "The Ottoman Empire and the Balkan Peninsula". In
Lord Acton
;
Ward, A. W.
;
Prothero, G. W.
;
Leathes, Stanley M.
(eds.).
The Cambridge Modern History
. Vol. XII. The Latest Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 381?428.
- Miller, William (1923). "XV: Greece and Aegean under Frank and Venetian Domination (1204?1571)". In
Bury, J.B.
(ed.).
Cambridge Medieval History
. Vol. IV: Eastern Roman Empire, 717?1453. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 432?477.
- Miller, William (1923). "XVI. The Empire of Nicaea and the Recovery of Constantinople". In
Bury, J.B.
(ed.).
Cambridge Medieval History
. Vol. IV: Eastern Roman Empire, 717?1453. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 478?516.
- Miller, William (1923). "XVII. The Balkan States". In
Bury, J.B.
(ed.).
Cambridge Medieval History
. Vol. IV: Eastern Roman Empire, 717?1453. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 517?593.
- Empire of Trebizond, the Last Greek Empire
. London:
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
. 1926.
hdl
:
2027/mdp.39015019216228
.
- Greece
(UK ed.). London:
Ernest Benn:LTD
. 1928.
- Published in USA by
C. Scribner’s Sons
from name ≪Ottoman Empire and Greece≫
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