Jonathan Shepard

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Jonathan Shepard is a British historian specializing in early medieval Russia, the Caucasus, and the Byzantine Empire. He is regarded as a leading authority in Byzantine studies and on the Kievan Rus. Shepard received his doctorate in 1973 from Oxford University and was a University Lecturer in Russian History at the University of Cambridge. Among other works, he is co-author (with Simon Franklin) of The Emergence of Rus 750–1200 (1996), and editor of The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire (2006).

Among Shepard's theories is that the breakdown in Byzantine-Khazar relations and the shift in Byzantine foreign policy towards allying with the Pechenegs and the Rus against Khazaria was a result of the Khazar conversion to Judaism.

[edit] Selected bibliography

[edit] As Author

• Shepard, Jonathan. (1998) "The Khazars' Formal Adoption of Judaism and Byzantium's Northern Policy." Journal Article in Oxford Slavonic Papers
• Shepard, Jonathan. (1997) "Byzantine Soldiers, Missionaries, and Diplomacy under Gibbon's Eyes." Book Chapter in Edward Gibbon and Empire
• Franklin, Simon; Shepard, Jonathan. (1996) The Emergence of Rus, 750-1200. London and New York: Longman.
• Shepard, Jonathan. (1992) "A Suspected Source of John Scylitzes' Synopsis Historion: the great Catacalon Cecaumenus." Journal Article in Byzantine and modern Greek Studies.
• Shepard, Jonathan. (1976) "Scylitzes on Armenia in the 1040's." Journal Article in Revue des études armeniennes.

[edit] As editor

• Shepard, Jonathan, et al, eds. (2006). The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire. Cambridge Univ. Press.
• Shepard, Jonathan; Franklin, Simon, eds. (1992) "Byzantine Diplomacy: Papers of the Twenty-fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Cambridge, March 1990." Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain and Brookfield, Vt.: Variorum.