Report for the Academic Years 1987-1988 and 1988-1989

THE SCHOOL OF HISTORICAL STUDIES
Academic Activities of the Permanent Faculty
Academic Years 1987-88 and 1988-89
GLEN BOWERSOCK is the general editor of a new series of books on the ancient
world. Two volumes of this series, published by Harvard University Press under
the overall title Revealing Antiquity, appeared during the period covered by this
report. During these two years Professor Bowersock published twenty-one articles
on the Roman and early Byzantine empires, the pre-Islamic Arabs and ancient and
modem historiography. He participated in several scholarly symposia and lectured
at the University of Toronto, Boston University, Columbia and Yale as weO as
delivering the Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures at the University of Michigan and
the American Academy in Rome. This series of six lectures, entided "Hellenism
in Late Antiquity," will be published in 1990 by the University of Michigan Press.
He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1989.
GILES CONSTABLE completed and submitted for publication The Cartulary of
Homblieres and the Letters between Bernard Berenson and Charles H. Coster. Scholarly
articles by Professor Constable were published in the Journal des Savants and in the
book, Horizons marins, Itineraires spirituels. During the academic years 1987-88 and
1988-89 he participated in numerous symposia and conferences. Sponsoring insti-
tutions included Barnard College, the Medieval Academy of America, the Center
for Medieval and Renaissance Studies [University of California at Los Angeles],
Princeton University's Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, New
York University and Dumbarton Oaks. He lectured at Harvard University, the
University of Toledo, Mt. Holyoke College, the University of Utrecht in The
Netherlands, the University of North Carolina and elsewhere.
JOHN H. ELLIOTT'S publications during the period covered by this report included
Spain and Its World, 1500-1700: Selected Essays. In 1987-88 he received the
Medal of Honor of the Universidad Intemacional Menendez y Pelayo in Madrid,
and the Spanish Ambassador to the United States conferred on him the Grand
Cross of the Order of Alfonso X El Sabio in a ceremony at the Institute. At the
end of the academic year 1988-89 Professor Elliott was appointed Regius Professor
of Modem History at the University of Oxford, effective in the autumn of 1990.
CHRISTIAN HABiCHT completed two books, Cicero the Politician and Cicero der Politiker
The former will appear in the series, "Ancient Society and History," of The
Johns Hopkins University Press; the latter will be published by C.H. Beck in
Munich. Dunng the academic years 1987-88 and 1988-89 Professor Habicht
published eleven articles in American and European journals and contributed an
essay to Bathron, a Festschrift for H. Drerup. He gave the annual C.A. Robinson
Lecture at Brown University on "Cicero and Caesar." Some of the results of his
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