Walter Kaegi

Walter Emil Kaegi is a historian and scholar of Byzantine History, and professor of history in the University of Chicago. He is also a Voting Member of The Oriental Institute. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1965. He is known for his researches on the period from the fourth through eleventh centuries with a special interest in the advance of Islam, interactions with religion and thought, and military subjects. He is also distinguished for analyzing the Late Roman period in European and Mediterranean context. He is known as the co-founder of the Byzantine Studies Conference and the editor of the journal Byzantinische Forschungen.

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1970s-1980s

1990s

2000s

Current Research

Muslim Raids into Byzantine Anatolia. He is planning an investigation of the role of Byzantine concepts of strategy in the emergence of concepts of strategy in early Modern Europe.

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