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Professor Paul Halsall

This website is one of the richest history sites you will find anywhere largely because of the work of Professor Paul Halsall.

Paul Halsall is assistant professor of history at the University of North Florida. He defended his dissertation on Women's Bodies, Men's Souls: Sanctity and Gender Byzantium at Fordham University in New York in May 1999. His undergraduate degree is in history from the University of Edinburgh, and he holds a masters degree in Classical Civilization from the University of London (Birkbeck College). He teaches upper level medieval history course as well as coordinating the western civilizatio program at UNF. Publications include an annotated translation of the Life of St. Thomais of Lesbos in Holy Women of Byzantium, edited by Alice-Mary Talbot (Washington DC: 1996), and he is currently working on turning his dissertation into a book. His work on the internet includes creating and editing the Internet History Sourcebooks project http://www.fordham.edu/halsall, a wide ranging web resource for college level history courses, and Byzantium http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/byzantium , the most complete guide to Byzantine studies on the web.