Dr. Alasdair Grant – Byzantinistik

Alasdair Grant ist ein Historiker des mittelalterlichen Mittelmeerraums und Kaukasus, mit besonderem Fokus auf sozioökonomische Themen, vor allem Sklaverei und Rebellion. Er studierte Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Latein und Byzantinistik an den Universitäten St Andrews, Oxford und Edinburgh, sowie Mainz. Er war danach Postdoc an der Universität Edinburgh und ist jetzt als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in der Emmy Noether-Nachwuchsgruppe „Soziale Kontexte von Rebellion in der frühislamischen Zeit“ an der Universität Hamburg tätig. Zudem ist er seit 2025 stellvertretender wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Arbeitsbereich Byzantinistik der Universität Mainz und, seit 2024, ein Young Academy Fellow der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg. Sein erstes Buch, Greek Captives and Mediterranean Slavery, 1260–1460, eine umfangreich überarbeitete Version seiner Dissertation, wurde 2024 von Edinburgh University Press veröffentlicht.

2025 – present	Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Department of Byzantine Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
2024 – present	Young Academy Fellow, Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg
2021 – present	Research Associate (Postdoc), ‘Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period’, Universität Hamburg
2020 – 2021	Curatorial (Postdoctoral) Fellow, ‘Edina/Athena: The Greek Revolution and the Athens of the North, 1821–2021’, The University of Edinburgh
2020 (spring)	Junior Fellow, Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C.
2017 – 2018	Visiting Doctoral Researcher, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
2016 – 2021	PhD, History, ‘Cross-Confessional Captivity in the Later Medieval Eastern Roman World, c.1280–1450’, The University of Edinburgh
2015 – 2016	MSt, Distinction, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford
2011 – 2015	MA (Hons.), First Class, Latin and Mediaeval History, University of St Andrews

2024. Greek Captives and Mediterranean Slavery, 1260–1460 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024) [Open Access].

2025. With H.-L. Hagemann (eds), Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World: Power, Contention and Identity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press) [Open Access].

(Forthcoming). ‘The Greek Revolution, Thomas Gordon and the Aberdeen Committee’, Northern Scotland.
2025 With T. Greenwood, K. Hagan, L. Pecorini Goodall and L. Read, ‘A Neglected Armenian Source of the Late Umayyad Era: The Martyrdom of Vahan of Gołt‘n’, Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 33, pp. 30–106.
2022. ‘Scotland’s “Vagabonding Greekes”, 1453–1688’, Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies 46, pp. 81–97 [Open Access].
2018. ‘The Mongol Invasions between Epistolography and Prophecy: The Case of the Letter “Ad flagellum”, c.1235/6–1338’, Traditio 73, pp. 117–77.
2016. ‘Pisan Perspectives: The Carmen in victoriam and Holy War, c.1000–1150’, The English Historical Review 131, pp. 983–1009.

(Forthcoming). ‘Between Greek Revolution and Jamaican Rebellion: Thomas Gordon as Philhellene and Slave Owner«, in M. Sotiropoulos (ed.), Philhellenism and the Greek Revolution of 1821: Towards a Global History (Abingdon: Routledge).
(Forthcoming). ‘Captives, Slaves, and Latin Categories of Greekness’, in N. Gaul, M. Carr and Y. Stouraitis (eds), The Post-1204 Byzantine World: New Directions and Novel Approaches. Papers Read at the 51st Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Edinburgh, 13–15 April 2018 (Abingdon: Routledge).
(Forthcoming). ‘A Probably Spurious Crusading Letter of 1441 to John II of Cyprus (Vat. lat. 10688)’, in G. Christ (ed.), Commerce and Crusade: The Mamluk Empire and Cyprus in a Euro-Mediterranean Perspective (Leuven: Peeters).
2025. ‘Taxation, Rebellion and Withdrawal in Early ʿAbbāsid Armenia, 754–775 CE/136–158 AH’, in H.-L. Hagemann and A. C. Grant (eds), Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World: Power, Contention and Identity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press) [Open Access].
2025. With H.-L. Hagemann, ‘Introduction: Approaching Rebellion in the Early Islamicate World’, in H.-L. Hagemann and A. C. Grant (eds), Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World: Power, Contention and Identity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press) [Open Access].
2024. ‘Thomas Gordon and the Ghost of Tripolitsa: A Study in Private Conflict and Public Relations’, in R. Beaton and N. Gaul (eds), The Greek Revolution of 1821: European Contexts, Scottish Connections (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), pp. 250–74.
2023. ‘Gottlose Korsaren. Erzählungen aus der spätmittelalterlichen Ägäis’, in R. Hank, H. Leppin and M. Plumpe (eds), »Alle, die mit uns auf Kaperfahrt fahren«: Piratengeschichten auf den Meeren der Welt (Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag), pp. 49–72.
2022. With M. Carr, ‘The Catalan Company as a military diasporic group in medieval Greece and Asia Minor’, in G. Christ, P. Sänger and M. Carr (eds), Military Diasporas: Building of Empire in the Middle East and Europe (550 BCE–1500 CE) (Abingdon: Routledge), pp. 176–93.
2019. ‘Byzantium’s ashes and the bones of St Nicholas: Two translations as turning points, 1087–1100’, in M. Kinloch and A. MacFarlane (eds), Trends and Turning-Points: Constructing the Late Antique and Byzantine World (Leiden: Brill), pp. 247–65.

(Forthcoming Research note). ‘Edward Masson: A Scot in the Greek Revolutionary Navy, 1827’, International Journal of Scottish Studies.
(Forthcoming Essay). ‘Vergessene Unfreiheit: Mittelalterliche Sklaverei als transatlantische Geschichte’, in M. Latif (ed.), Freiheit (Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder).
2023. Review: S. B. Dadoyan, Islam in Armenian Literary Culture: Texts, Contexts, Dynamics (Leuven: Peeters, 2021), in Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations 34, pp. 193–4.
2023. Review: W. St Clair, Who Saved the Parthenon? A New History of the Acropolis before, during and after the Greek Revolution (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers), in Historische Zeitschrift 316, pp. 685–6.
2021. Article: ‘The Scottish Ladies Society for Promoting Education in Greece: Philanthropy and Empire in the “Athens of the North”’, History Scotland (Nov./Dec. 2021), pp. 42–4.
2021. Exhibition Catalogue: With N. Gaul, I. G. Brown and R. Beaton, Edina/Athena: The Greek Revolution and the Athens of the North, 1821–2021 (Edinburgh: The University of Edinburgh) [Open Access].
2021. CD Booklet: ‘Ronald Center and His String Quartets’, Ronald Center: Chamber and Instrumental Music, Volume Two: Complete String Quartets [TOCC 0533] (London: Toccata Classics).
2021. Review: T. Sinclair, Eastern Trade and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages: Pegolotti’s Ayas–Tabriz Itinerary and its Commercial Context (Abingdon & New York: Routledge, 2019), in Al-Masāq 33, pp. 89–92.
2021. Review: D. Valérian, Ports et réseaux d’échanges dans le Maghreb médiéval (Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2019), in Al-Masāq 33, pp. 352–4.
2020. Review: H. Barker, That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260–1500 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), in Al-Masāq 32, pp. 357–60.
2019. Review: G. Scalia (ed.), A. Bartola (comm.) and M. Guardo (trans.), Enrico Pisano: Liber Maiorichinus de gestis Pisanorum illustribus (Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2017), in The English Historical Review 134, pp. 957–9.